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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's party candidate was killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing that injured four others, a police official said a few days before Wednesday's general election. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the north-west of the country, is following a series of bombings before the elections, the most devastating being a suicide bombing that killed 149 people.
Sunday's bombing targets the vehicle of Ikramullah Gandapur Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or movement for justice in Pakistan, for the Provisional Legislative Assembly in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, after leaving a political meeting, two police officials told Reuters.
"Ikramullah Gandapur was killed and we conduct an autopsy," said police chief Zahoor Afridi, adding that 10 kg (22 pounds) of explosives had been
Gandapur had been informed of Serious threats to his life and had received 11 police officers, but he did not inform the police of his political meeting on Sunday, said Afridi
. Gandapur was among the wounded
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, said a spokesman for the militant group
. The video footage of the scene showed three bleeding and unconscious pbadengers inside a heavily damaged black utility vehicle. 19659002] In 2013, Gandapur's brother, Israrullah, who was then the provincial minister of laws, was killed in a suicide bomb attack on his home.
Among the dozens of parties in the electoral scramble, there are two main candidates: PTI and Pakistan. Muslim League-Nawaz, which aims to win a second term despite the imprisonment of its founder, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, for corruption.
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