Terrorists wearing suicide vests and carrying firearms, exchanged fire with security forces and were killed, the statement further said.
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District Police Officer (DPO) Mardan Faisal Shahzad said the attacker detonated a hand grenade before blowing up his suicide vest.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued a statement condemning the attack, saying that “these cowardly attacks can not shatter our unflinching resolve in our war against terrorism”.
Four suicide bombers were killed after they attempted to attack a Christian colony near Peshawar in Pakistan in the early hours of this morning. Five security officials and guards were wounded.
In a Twitter message, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lt. Asim Saleem Bajwa said that four terrorists, equipped with automatic weapons and ammunition, launched the assault on Christian Colony at 5:50 today.
In August the Taliban and the Islamic State issued competing claims on an attack against lawyers at a hospital in Quetta, killing 74 people. One civilian was also killed in the attack, they said. Seven people including two FC soldiers, a police constable, two civil guards, one Levies official and one civilian were injured in the attack.
“The Mardan attacker blew himself up after security prevented him from getting inside the gates, according to Khan”.
Two of the attackers detonated their suicide jackets, and two others were killed by security forces, the sources added.
Christians are a tiny minority in the majority Muslim nation. Last month, a blast in southern Balochistan province capital Quetta killed more than 70 people, almost wiping out the senior lawyers of the city.
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The courthouse bombing took place in the center of Mardan, a busy commercial city in the restive province near Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border that is home to a variety of Islamist militant groups.
