As many as 32 people including police personnel were killed and at least 54 others injured in a powerful blast, believed to be a suicide car bombing, near the District Coordination Officer (DCO) office and the district courts in Hangu on Thursday evening.
The blast was severe in intensity as it jolted most of district Hangu and razed 15 shops. Several houses, the DCO office and a police station were partially damaged. The blast caused an 8-feet crater on the ground. It was a second attack on Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in two days.
Local people rushed to the blast site and initiated rescue activities, shifting the injured to District Headquarters Hospital, Hangu, where emergency was declared. Some of the critical injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. The body parts of the killed were lying scattered all over the place while the people searched through the rubble for their dear ones. Heavy contingents of police were deployed to cordon off the area after the blast.