PESHAWAR: A district councillor affiliated with the Awami National Party (ANP), Malik Mumtaz Khan, was killed and three others sustained injuries in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Hangu district on Saturday, police said.

Police sources told DawnNews that the ANP councillor was travelling in his car when the IED — which had been planted on the roadside in Hangu's Tora Warai area — targeted his vehicle.

As a result of the blast, councillor Mumtaz Khan was seriously injured. He was being shifted to the District Hospital Hangu where he later expired.

Three others who sustained injuries in the explosion were also shifted to the district hospital and their condition was stated as stable.

Police sources said a search operation was launched in the area following the blast.

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