At least eight security personnel were killed and five were injured in a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan on Saturday, officials said.

According to law enforcement officials, the attack specifically targeted a police post in the Eidak area of Mir Ali.

The bomber set off the blast from the back of a motorbike rickshaw near the town, a local police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Four police officers were killed alongside two members of a state paramilitary force and two civilians in the attack near the border with Afghanistan, he said.

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“Among the five injured personnel, the condition of three is critical, and they have been transferred to a local military hospital,” he added.

A local government official who also did not want to be named confirmed the same toll of dead and wounded.

On the other hand, unknown assailants destroyed the house of former Senator Saleh Shah in upper South Waziristan on Saturday, police reported.

(With input from AFP)