{"id":60996,"date":"2026-08-02T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/suicide-bomber-kills-at-least-14-people-in-malalas-home-town\/02\/08\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:58:13","slug":"suicide-bomber-kills-at-least-14-people-in-malalas-home-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/suicide-bomber-kills-at-least-14-people-in-malalas-home-town\/02\/08\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber kills at least 14 people in Malala\u2019s home town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A suicide bomber ripped through a public rally in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 14 people, including several police officials, amid a surge of violence in the country, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;At least 14 people including five policemen have been killed,&#8221; Bilal Faizai, spokesman for the provincial rescue department, told dpa. Another 18 people were wounded in the explosion, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The explosion in the Kabal area of Swat valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa occurred in front of the police station, where hundreds of people gathered for a demonstration against the surge in militancy in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rally attracted large crowds from the district. Images and videos on social media showed a speaker mid-speech when a powerful blast triggered panic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The suicide bomber blew himself up when asked for a search in front of the police station,&#8221; a local police official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the suicide attack. &#8220;Terrorists will never succeed in their nefarious efforts to harm peace, national unity and the writ of the state,&#8221; Zardari said in statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swat valley had had once been under Taliban control between 2007 and 2009 before being driven out in a military offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai was shot there as a teenager by a Taliban gunman in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/suicide-bomber-kills-least-14-180330119.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber ripped through a public rally in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 14 people, including several police officials, amid a<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/suicide-bomber-kills-at-least-14-people-in-malalas-home-town\/02\/08\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/842123ea567b805fc42ee3e5338c8c0efa122abdf7f20c935f5d32ca7f26c919\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w1200;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fdpa_international_526%2Fba96683aaaff27d2afb3716044de338f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}