Bomb blast in DI Khan, PTI leader hit
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*DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Former minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sardar Ikram Khan Gandapur was injured in a bomb blast near his car in a DI Khan neighborhood on Sunday.*
Police said Gandapur was injured along with four others while his driver died in a suicide blast near his vehicle in Kulachi area of DI Khan.
They were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital where the PTI leader is stated to be in critical condition.
A suicide bomber blew himself up near the vehicle of Ikram Khan Gandapur as he left his house for election campaign, district police chief Zaheer Afridi said.
A large contingent of security personnel swarmed the blast site and cordoned it off for security purposes.
The former minister is in the run for a provincial assembly seat (PK-99). He remained provincial agricultural minister in the previous government of the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This is the latest in a series of attacks targeting election candidates in the country in the past few weeks.
On July 13, more than 150 people were killed and 180 injured in two separate terror attacks during election-related activities in Balochistan and KP.
Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate Nawabzada Siraj Raisani was among 142 people killed in a suicide attack on an election rally in the Mastung area. Around 150 people were injured in the tragic incident.
