Locals gather near a bus wreckage after an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Lakki Marwat district, northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Jan. 5, 2026. One person was killed and eight others were injured in an IED blast followed by gunfire targeting a bus carrying laborers in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, security sources said. (Str/Xinhua)
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and eight others were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast followed by gunfire targeting a bus carrying laborers in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, security sources said.
The incident occurred at around 6:45 a.m. local time (0145 GMT) in Lakki Marwat district, where unknown militants detonated the IED and opened fire on the bus carrying workers of a cement factory, the sources told Xinhua.
Rescue teams and security personnel rushed to the site and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital, the sources said.
Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down the assailants, the sources said, adding that an investigation into the incident was underway.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. ■
This photo taken on Jan. 5, 2026 shows a bus wreckage after an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Lakki Marwat district, northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. One person was killed and eight others were injured in an IED blast followed by gunfire targeting a bus carrying laborers in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, security sources said. (Str/Xinhua)
Locals gather near a bus wreckage after an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Lakki Marwat district, northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Jan. 5, 2026. One person was killed and eight others were injured in an IED blast followed by gunfire targeting a bus carrying laborers in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, security sources said. (Str/Xinhua)
Locals gather near a bus wreckage after an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Lakki Marwat district, northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Jan. 5, 2026. One person was killed and eight others were injured in an IED blast followed by gunfire targeting a bus carrying laborers in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, security sources said. (Str/Xinhua)