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KOHAT/BUNER, Dec 11: A pro-Baitullah Mehsud Taliban group of Darra Adamkhel has claimed responsibility for an attack in Buner on Eid day, in which a child was killed.
A spokesman for the Darra Taliban, Mohammad, told Dawn by phone from an unknown location in the Orakzai Agency on Thursday that they had carried out the attack to avenge the killing of their comrade, Kamran, and his associates by local people.
He warned that they would not spare the culprits and would carry out more attacks on security forces in Buner.
The child had been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near an Eid prayer congregation in Daggar, Buner, on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses said the suicide bomber got off a car in the Naray Oba locality and shortly after he detonated explosives strapped to his body near the people who had gathered for Eid payer, injuring five children.
The injured were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Daggar where eight-year-old Zahid Hussain died.
The other injured were identified as Mohammad Hussain, 7, Saiful Islam, 8, Storia, 6, and Shakeela, 5.
SHOPS BLOWN UP: The local Taliban blew up four shops of cosmetics in the Bilitang bazaar, 16 kilometres east of the Kohat city, early Wednesday morning.
Police said the Taliban had planted four improvised explosive devices in front of the shops, which exploded at around 2am. The shops were destroyed.
The bomb disposal squad and police reached the scene at 5am and collected evidence and recorded statements of shopkeepers.
The Saddar police registered a case against unidentified people.
The business of CD and video shops has already been closed in the area following Taliban threats and bomb attacks last year.
GRENADE ATTACK: Nineteen Afghan refugees, including a child, were injured in a grenade attack in the bazaar of the Ghamkol camp on Thursday.
The injured were taken to the KDA Divisional Headquarters Hospital, where the condition of four was serious, according to Dr Gulab Zareen, in-charge of the emergency ward.
Two were shifted to Islamabad because the Kohat tunnel was closed at the time of the incident.
Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred when people were coming out of mosques after Isha prayer.
The bomb disposal squad and police officials visited the site. The Junglekhel police registered a case.
