Suicide bombing at police checkpoint in Pakistan kills at least 11
Por Associated Press — South China Morning Post – News feed
Advertisement Pakistan Asia South Asia Suicide bombing at police checkpoint in Pakistan kills at least 11
About 30 others were wounded in the attack, for which the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility
2 -MIN READ 2 -MIN
Associated Press Published: 9:18pm, 26 Sep 2026 A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.
The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service. Local police chief Safdar Baloch said most of those killed and wounded were security personnel and passers-by.
The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement. Pakistan has experienced a surge in militant attacks in recent years, many of them claimed by the TTP and the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, a separatist group mainly active in neighbouring Balochistan province.
The TTP is separate from but allied with the Afghan Taliban, which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Select Voice Select Speed 0.8x 0.9x 1.0x 1.1x 1.2x 1.5x 1.75x 00:00 00:00 1x AI-generated voice
