DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Former minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sardar Ikram Khan Gandapur was injured in a bomb blast near his car in a DI Khan neighborhood on Sunday morning, ARY News reported.
Police said four other people, including Gandapur’s driver and security guards, were also injured in a remote controlled-blast near his convoy in tehsil Kolachi of DI Khan.
They have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital. The PTI leader was returning after attending an election gathering when he was targeted.
A large contingent of security personnel swarmed the blast site and cordoned it off for security purposes.
The former minister is in the run for a provincial assembly seat (PK-99). He remained provincial agricultural minister in the previous government of the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This is the latest in a series of attacks targeting election candidates in the country in the past few weeks.
On July 13, more than 150 people were killed and 180 injured in two separate terror attacks during election-related activities in Balochistan and KP.
Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate Nawabzada Siraj Raisani was among 142 people killed in a suicide attack on an election rally in the Mastung area. Around 150 people were injured in the tragic incident.
Separately, a bomb targeted the convoy of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) candidate Akram Khan Durrani in a Bannu this morning. He, however, escaped unhurt while four people were killed and 14 others injured in attack.
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