A bomb hit Dera Ismail Khan, causing multiple casualties.
blast hits Dera Ismail Khan: Police claim that the market close to Tank Ada was the scene of a blast and heavy gunfire.
According to the original report, the nature of the blast is unknown. For relief efforts, the rescue teams have arrived at the scene.
Law enforcement officials have arrived at the crime scene in the interim.
Terrorist activity in Pakistan has increased since the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke their ceasefire with the government in November of last year, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
In a different act of terrorism in July, a massive explosion in the Hayatabad neighbourhood of Peshawar injured at least eight members of a paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) convoy.
Cantt Superintendent of Police (SP) Waqas Rafi confirmed the suicide blast in remarks to reporters close to the explosion site, stating that it was an attack on an FC convoy passing through phase 6 of Hayatabad.