Seven lawyers and two police personnel were among those killed in the bombing.
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned both attacks, adding that militants were on the back foot and were “showing their frustration by attacking soft targets”.
The Jamaatul Ahrar (JA) claimed responsibility for the attack, Dawn reports.
The attack occurred hours after heavily-armed suicide attackers stormed a Christian colony in Peshawar, killing one person and wounding several others before the terrorists were gunned down by security forces.
“The terrorists are being shattered by the security forces, due to which they are retaliating”. One civilian was also killed in the attack, they said.
The Pakistani Taliban faction Jamaat-ur-Ahrar has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, in which at least one security guard was killed. Two paramilitary soldiers, a policeman and two security guards were wounded in the gunfight.
Police sources said that bomber’s suicide vest contained around seven to eight kilogramme of explosives.
Soon after the attack near Warsak Dam, another suicide bomber struck a court some 45 miles east of the area and killed 12 people, according to Mardan police chief Faisal Shehzad.
The dead included at least two policemen as well as lawyers and clerks.
This was second attack on Pakistan’s legal community within a month. He instructed civilians to stay away from “un-Islamic courts” and other law enforcement establishments because these places will be their next targets. In a statement that he sent to Reuters, the group’s spokesman promised to carry out more attacks. Sec forces Promptly responded, all 4 suicide bombers killed.
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“We have enhanced the security of Christians establishments, schools, hospitals, colonies and churches”, said Zulfikar.
