The group is based in neighboring Afghanistan's Nangarhar province and is a rival of the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida. Police had suggested in their initial investigation that Islamic State in Khorasan Province was a suspect. Mohammad said he heard people crying for help, and minutes later ambulances arrived and began taking the wounded away. "People were chanting God is Great as the leaders arrived," said Khan Mohammad, a local resident who said he was standing outside the tent, "and that was when I heard the deafening sound of the bomb." The Jamiat Ulema Islam party has ties to the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.Īt least 1,000 people were crowded into a tent near a market for the rally ahead of fall elections, according to police. The attack appeared to reflect divisions between Islamist groups, which have a strong presence in the district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. Officials said the bombing killed 54 people, including at least five children, and wounded nearly 200. Hours earlier, hundreds of mourners in Bajur carried caskets draped in colorful cloths to burial sites after the previous day's attack at the election rally for the Jamiat Ulema Islam party.
0 kommentar(er)
