Iran Press/ America: On Sunday, 54 people were killed and 83 people were injured after a bomb exploded in a political gathering in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest of Pakistan.
The bomber attacked the gathering of the conservative Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl party, which is allied with the government in the Bajaur district on Sunday in the northwest, near the border with Afghanistan.
A police counter-terrorism wing investigating the blast suspected the ISIS terrorist group was behind it, police said in a statement.
Later on, the ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for this attack in a statement.
The Secretary General of the United Nations expressed his sympathy with the victims of this terrorist attack and asked the Pakistani authorities to arrest and punish the perpetrators of this attack.
Terrorist incidents have intensified in Pakistan in the last two years. Over the past year, Pakistani Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has taken responsibility for many bombings and suicide attacks in Peshawar and other areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. 219
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