11 dead after suicide bombing at Pakistan checkpoint

Nation/WorldPublished: Sep. 26, 2026, 6:11 a.m.At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 are injured after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday.banprik - stock.adobe.comAt least 11 people are dead and more than 30 are injured after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday.The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service.

Local police chief Safdar Baloch said most of those killed and wounded were security personnel and a passersby.According to The Associated Press, the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement. Pakistan, per the report, has experienced a surge in militant attacks in recent years, many of them claimed by the TTP and the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, a separatist group mainly active in neighboring Balochistan province.MORE BY MARK HEIMThe TTP is separate from but closely allied with the Afghan Taliban, which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Pakistani officials have repeatedly accused the Afghan Taliban of allowing TTP members to operate from Afghan soil and have demanded that Kabul prevent cross-border attacks into Pakistan.

First reported by OregonLive.