Baku-APA. At least nine people including senior provincial minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour were killed and over 18 others were injured in a suicide blast that hit a political gathering in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Saturday evening, senior government official said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The 70-year-old minister was a leader of Awami National Party ( ANP), the ruling party of the country's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said that Bilour got seriously wounded when a suicide bomber targeted him after the conclusion of an ANP's political gathering in Dhaki Nalabandi area of Peshawar.
Bilour was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital along with other injured people where he received three surgeries in one hour. Doctors said that Bilour could not survive as he received serious bomb injuries near his heart.
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