QUETTA: Three people were killed and 23 injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber targeted a police truck in western Pakistan, an official said, an attack claimed by the domestic chapter of the Taliban.
The Pakistan Taliban -- known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- are separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan but share a common hardline Islamist ideology.
On Monday, the group declared an end to a shaky ceasefire with Islamabad declared over the summer and ordered nationwide attacks to resume.
Senior police official Azhar Mehesar told AFP the blast targeted a police team preparing to escort polio vaccinators in the city of Quetta and that those killed “include a policeman, a woman and a child”.
In a statement to AFP, the TTP claimed responsibility for the “martyrdom attack”. - AFP