Pakistan: 9 hurt in IED blast targeting police van, Taliban claim responsibility

The police van was on a routine patrol when the bomb went off along the roadside.

Islamabad: At least nine people, including four policemen were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeting a police van in Pakistan’s Charsadda town on Monday.

The banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in an email sent to journalists, The Dawn quoted the police as saying.

The police van was on a routine patrol in Sro area of Charsadda's Shabqadar tehsil when the bomb went off along the roadside, injuring four police officials and five passers-by.

Police and rescue officials arrived at the scene and shifted the injured to tehsil headquarters hospital.

According to hospital administration, three of the injured who were in critical condition were shifted to Peshawar.