UN vehicle comes under fire in DI Khan

KABUL (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on a bulletproof vehicle carrying local staff of the United Nations in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said on Wednesday.

The Associated Press quoted a senior police officer as saying: “The attack on the vehicle of the United Nations Office for Project Services happened in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday.”

District Police Officer Abdul Salam said all the people traveling in the vehicle were safe. Police have launched a search to find and arrest those involved in the assault.

No one immediately claimed responsibility and the Pakistani Taliban said in a statement that they were not behind the attack.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks, mostly in the northwest, in recent years.

Earlier, at least eight Pakistan soldiers had been killed and 50 others wounded in an attack after suicide bombers rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a perimeter wall at a military base in the Bannu district of the same province.

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