Roadside bomb kills 5 in northwest Pakistan

A roadside bomb has killed at least five people and wounded several others in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Mohammad Iqbal Khan, who is a Pakistani government official, said on Monday that a remote-controlled bomb was detonated in Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal region as volunteers from a government-backed militia group were moving into the area.

Khan said the attack took place in a remote area of the valley and the wounded were being transported to a hospital in the region.

Khyber News Agency reported that the people targeted in the attack were workers of a peace committee.

No group has claimed responsibility yet, but militants from the Taliban and Daesh groups have carried out such attacks in the past.

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