Terror attack in Pakistan kills 13

13 labourers were killed and two sustained injuries in an explosion overnight in the Shawal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district of Pakistan, a police official said, Report informs referring to Dawn.

North Waziristan District Police Officer Naik Muhammad confirmed the death toll to Dawn.com and said the incident took place in Shawal, near the Pak-Afghan border. The van in which the labourers were travelling was completely destroyed by the blast, he added.

The incident took place on August 20 night when over a dozen labourers were heading to South Waziristan from the Shawal area of North Waz­ir­istan in a vehicle, Inspector Abrar had told Dawn.

Police officials had said the private vehicle carrying the labourers hit a landmine in the Gull Meer Kor areas. Soon after the incident, sources had said, the injured, as well as the bodies of the deceased, were shifted to the hospital.