Pakistani security forces killed four terrorists who attacked a residential complex of a key dam near the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, the military said.
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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.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif expressed satisfaction over successfully foiling the attack in Peshawar by 4 suicide bombers. Security forces promptly responded.
The president of the Mardan Bar Association says he believes the lawyers were the target of the attack because they are “an important part of democracy, and terrorists are opposed to democracy”.
In a separate statement, the military’s information wing said that one security guard of the Christian residential area was killed at the start of the attack, at 5:30 am. Local police official Shaukat Khan said four suicide bombers entered the Christian colony.
While Army spokesperson, Lt.
He said a quick response from the local civilian guards and security forces prevented more deaths.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
More than 70 people, mostly lawyers, were killed last month in a suicide bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta.
A spokesman for the extremist Muslim group Jamat ul-Ahrar, an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Police sources said, “Law enforcement agencies also recovered four automatic rifles, four hand grenades and four suicide vests from the crime scene”.
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The bombs exploded at a regional court in the Mardan, a town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, situated 40km off Peshawar, the capital of the region bordering Afghanistan.
