PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Friday escaped a suicide attack that targeted his convoy in Mardan, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported. The outlawed TTP has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
The sources said that all other members of the chief minister’s convoy also remained safe in the blast that took place outside the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan.
The attack took place when the provincial chief minister was on its way to attend a meeting.
The banned militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed it was behind the attempt on Hoti’s life as well as a series of bombings in the northwest on Thursday that killed at least 16 people.
“We claim responsibility for today’s attack on Chief Minister Hoti. We also claim responsibility for yesterday’s attacks,” TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told media by telephone from an undisclosed location.
“Be sure that we will carry out more such attacks.”
DND
