Peshawar: At least four people were killed and 14 others injured, including a senior leader of an Islamist party, in today's bomb blast in an election rally in northwest Pakistan.

This is the third terror attack on a political rally ahead of the July 25 general elections.

Former federal minister and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) central leader Akram Durrani received minor injuries in the blast which took place in Bannu district bordering north Waziristan tribal district.

The explosives were fitted to a motorbike which exploded close to Durrani's vehicle.

Durrani is the candidate of Muttahida Majlis e Amal (MMA), a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, religious and far-right parties of Pakistan.

"The injured have been shifted to a local hospital where five are stated to be in critical condition", said regional police officer Bannu Karim Khan.

On July 10, senior secular leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) Haroon Bilour and 19 others were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in an election rally in Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city.

Earlier this month, seven people, including a candidate of the MMA, were injured in an explosion during an election rally near Takhtikhel in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

(PTI)

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