Sifwat Ghayur

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying the Chief of Pakistan’s Frontier Constabulary in Peshawar on Wednesday, killing him and two others. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. Rescue workers frantically tried to extinguish fires that engulfed several cars in the minutes after the attack near a major market in the city. Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the Frontier Constabulary, was killed in the attack along with his driver and bodyguard, said Abdul Rahman Khan, a local police officer. The explosion also injured 14 other people, he said. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the killing...

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