A former town mayor, his son and bodyguard were killed and eight
other people wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in
Pakistan's northwest, police said.
The bomber targeted Hanif Khan
Jadoon in Swabi, 90 kilometres east of Peshawar, as he was sitting in
his car after offering his Eid prayer.
"It was a suicide attack.
The bomber was on foot. Hanif Jadoon was killed on the spot and his
security guard died in hospital," Mohammad Ijaz Khan, the Swabi police
chief, told AFP by telephone.
He later said Jadoon's son, Ahmed
Khan, had also succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Another eight
people were wounded, he added.
It was not clear why Jadoon was
targeted but police said he was a member of the Awami National Party,
which rules the militant-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and that could
have been a motive.
More than 4,700 people have been killed
across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other Islamist
extremist networks based in the tribal belt since government troops
stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007. AFP
