(MENAFN) Police declared that over five people, with a local political head, were wounded in a suicide blast at a political rally in northwestern Pakistan's district of Dera Ismail Khan.
Regional police officer Muhammad Kareem Khan confirmed that a suicide attacker blew off his bomb-laden vest close to the vehicle of Ikramullah Khan Gandapur, a director of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI), while he was going to a village in Kolachi area of Dera Ismail Khan, a district in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Police added that the wounded, including Gandapur, were rushed to the district hospital.
Attacks targeting Gandapur started when he was heading a political rally as part of his campaign to contest for a provincial assembly position in the country's upcoming general elections on July 25.
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