One resident of the colony named Simon has been killed and two security guards and a police constable are also said to be seriously wounded in the attack.
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Local police official Shaukat Khan said four suicide bombers entered the Christian colony.
The security guards and police deployed at the gate of the Christian Colony exchanged fire with terrorists and in the gun battle all four terrorists were killed. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles.
In the town of Mardan, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Peshawar, a suicide bomber threw a grenade at the district court before detonating his explosives, according to government spokesman Mushtaq Ghani. He said the attackers killed one Christian in the neighborhood.
Taliban gunmen had killed more than 150 people, a lot of them children, in the deadliest attack. He says some of the wounded are in a critical condition.
The attacker from the Tehreek-e-Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction apparently wanted to hit lawyers at the bar room, police said.
Lawyer Adil Hussain confirmed the police account. The same group had claimed responsibility for an August 8 attack at a Pakistan hospital that apparently targeted lawyers mourning a slain colleague. In August, a blast at a hospital in southern Balochistan province capital Quetta killed more than 70 people, almost wiping out the senior lawyers of the city.
Christians, who number around 2 million in a nation of 190 million people, have been the target of a series of attacks in recent years.
No one claimed responsibility but the attack came a day after the military said it foiled a bid by the Islamic State group to expand its network into this predominantly Muslim country, with the military arresting 309 suspects, including IS members from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
“These cowardly attacks cannot shatter our unflinching resolve in our war against terrorism”, he said.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the attacks in a statement released by his office.
