In an election rally in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, 20 people, including an influential candidate of Awami National Party (ANP), named Haroon Bilo, lost their lives in suicide bombers.
More than half of the injured were wounded in the attack. The son of an influential political family in the Haroon Billor province. His father Bashir Bilouro was killed in a suicide bomb attack in 2012.
The politician of the Taliban extremists announced that if his party wins, take strong action against the fierce militant groups like the Taliban.
The rally was organized in front of the general elections scheduled to be held in Pakistan on July 25. The attacks came in Peshawar on Tuesday after a Pakistani army spokesman announced an announcement that a terrorist attack in the country could be held in front of the election.
The city police chief of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Peshawar, Kazi Jamil said that 20 people, including politician Haroon Bilour, were killed and at least 54 were killed in a suicide bomb attack. Of the injured, Haroon Bilour is a 16-year-old boy.
In the initial investigation, police thinks suicide attacks have been launched targeting Haroon Bilor. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the Taliban group carried out numerous such attacks in Peshawar last year.