Three people including former senator killed in Bajaur bomb blast

BAJAUR: Former senator Hidayat Ullah’s vehicle was targeted via a “remote-controlled” bomb, leaving the lawmaker killed along with two others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place in Bajaur’s Damadola village where the former senator’s vehicle was targeted via a remote-controlled device, Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Bakht Munir said.

Hidayat, who was a former independent senator from erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), was killed in the bomb explosion along with two others, he added.

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