Bomb blast in South Waziristan leaves one killed, five wounded

South Waziristan: At least one person was killed and five others were wounded after a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's South Waziristan District, police said on Sunday.

The injured persons were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Wana.

The martyred man was identified as Mufti Ejazul Haq while the wounded persons include Saddam, Shah Hussain, Noor Hussain, Zain Ullah, and Maulana Shahzada Wazir.

Maulana Shahzada was seriously injured in the blast, and the condition of some of the injured is also critical, according to Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Fazlur Rehman. The police began investigating the incident.