BANNU: Local JUI-F leader Maulana Noorullah survived an explosion targeting his vehicle on Thursday near a seminary in lower South Waziristan’s Azam Warsak area, police said.
The ‘planted device’ exploded with a bang beside Maulana Noorullah’s car near Shahzad Madrassah, adjacent to the police station in Azam Warsak market, the police said.
According to a police statement, Maulana Noorullah was target in the blast, but fortunately remained unhurt.
Police confirmed the incident and said there were no casualties in the explosion. Security forces cordoned off the area and started an investigation.
A leader of JUI @juipakofficial in South Waziristan has survived an assassination attempt, police said Thursday. A explosion occurred near the vehicle of Maulana Noorullah near Shahzad Madrasa in Azam Warsak area. According to police sources, Maulana Noorullah was the target, but… pic.twitter.com/XK0R36umBv
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According to a video later released by the JUI-F, Maulana Noorullah told his supporters that he was accompanied by local party leaders Maulana Ishaq and Maulana Amanullah when the blast occurred.
“We all are safe,” he told his supporters. “We want peace in the country and protection of religious schools, mosques and all Muslims.”
JUI-F leaders have been targeted in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan over the past several months.
On March 14, a bomb exploded at a mosque in South Waziristan district during Friday prayers, leaving JUI district chief Abdullah Nadeem and three others critically injured, police said.
On April 25, a local leader of the JUI-F along with two women was killed and five others were injured in a IED explosion panted at a roadside near Kalat.
The police said the incident occurred in Kapootu area when a pickup vehicle carrying eight people was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the roadside near Killi Kapootu.
The vehicle was coming from Kalat when the blast took place. The pickup was driven by JUI-F local leader and union council member Maulana Abdullah Nachari.
In another incident on March 2, two leaders of JUI-F Balochistan were killed in the Zehri area of Khuzdar district in Balochistan.
