PESHAWAR, Pakistan. A roadside bomb placed on a bridge hit a rickshaw in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least two people and wounding eight others, authorities said.
The attack occurred in Mardan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police officer Sabir Khan said. He said police transported the injured to a hospital where two were in critical condition.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and other government officials denounced the attack.
No one claimed responsibility, but such attacks have previously been attributed to Islamic militants, including the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in the neighboring Afghanistan in August 2021.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuaries and even live openly in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which also emboldened the TTP.
Pakistan has blamed some attacks on the Islamic State group and some splinter factions of the TTP, which insists it only attacks security forces.
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