Aug 3,2023:The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan has risen to 63, officials said, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “Afghan citizens” had been involved in a spate of recent attacks.
The blast on Sunday targeted attendees at a rally for the religious political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in the tribal district of Bajaur, northwestern Pakistan.
The Pakistani military previously spent years fighting the Pakistani Taliban in the region before declaring the district clear of rebels in 2016.
“So far 63 people have died in the suicide bombing,” Liaquat Ali, a spokesman for the state-run hospital in Bajaur, said on Wednesday.
Another 123 people who were wounded in the attack near the Afghanistan border are being treated, according to a hospital official.
