In Bajaur Agency, three persons were killed and 24 others sustained injuries in a remote-controlled bomb blast in the Nawagai tehsil in Bajaur Agency, official sources said.

The sources said that a vehicle was targeted with a remote-controlled bomb in the far-flung border village Charmang Mataak in Nawagai.

“Three tribesmen were killed and 24 wounded in the blast near the Afghan border,” an official said.