Overview
- Authorities identified the dead suspect as Ziad, also known as Hamza, whom investigators link to targeted killings of police and CTD personnel and to expertise in assembling IEDs.
- An injured accomplice fled toward a nearby residential area, and police launched a search after cordoning off the site.
- Officers recovered a pistol, ammunition, and bomb-making materials from the blast location as evidence was collected.
- The bridge connects Bannu and Miranshah to Peshawar in a densely populated area, and police believe the plot aimed to disrupt travel.
- Local reporting attributes the attempt to the TTP’s Gul Bahar subgroup, and the incident comes during a surge in militant violence that includes a recent suicide bombing in Islamabad that killed 12.