Two government employees were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was targeted with a roadside bomb in Pakistan’s troubled northwest today.
The blast occurred at Dapak Mandakhel area of Lakki Marwat district in North West Frontier Province, police said.
There was confusion about the department for which the two injured men worked.
Police said they were employees of a fertilizer company while other reports said they worked for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, which has several installations in Lakki Marwat, including a uranium mine.
Both men sustained minor injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital.
The windows of the vehicle were shattered by the blast. Police cordoned off the area and collected evidence.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Militants have carried out a series of audacious attacks on government installations and civilian targets since the army launched an operation against the Taliban in South Waziristan tribal region in October.
Terrorists today targeted Pakistan's powerful ISI for the second time in less than a month as suicide bombers struck its office in eastern Multan city detonating their vehicle packed with up to 1,000 kg of explosives, killing at least 12 people and injuring 47 others.
The attack in Multan follows the suicide bombing at a crowded market in Lahore last night that killed 54 people. Another suicide bomber blew himself up outside a court complex in Peshawar yesterday, killing 10 people.
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