PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb targeting a local leader of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) in Buner area killed three people and wounded two others Saturday, police said.

According to police, local leader Adalat Khan was travelling in his car when a remote-controlled explosion struck his vehicle as he reached Gokand.

Khan was killed along with two other associates, police said.

“Adalat Khan and his two associates have been killed. Two others in the car were critically injured,” said senior police official Asif Iqbal.

Two wounded persons were shifted to a local hospital.

No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but a local intelligence official told AFP that Khan had supported an Anti-Taliban village militia in 2009. The head of that militia was later killed in a suicide attack in November 2012.