Jakarta, IO – A group of foreign diplomats, including Indonesian representatives, were targeted in a bomb attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan on Sunday (22/9).
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Roy Soemirat said the attack occurred on the road leading to Malam Jabba, 300 kilometers from Islamabad. The incident killed one security officer.
“(The attack) is suspected to be a bomb. It killed a policeman and injured three others,” said Roy, as per Kompas, Tue (24/9).
Roy said the charge d’affaires ad interim of the Indonesian embassy in Islamabad and the entire diplomatic corps were safe and sound and have returned to Islamabad.
According to the Foreign Ministry’s South and Central Asia director Jatmiko Heru Prasetyo, the attack targeted diplomats who were attending an international event, a tourism summit organized by the Swat Chamber of Industry and Commerce on Sunday (22/9), as per CNNIndonesia.
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The diplomatic entourage consisted of the ambassadors and diplomatic representatives of Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Portugal.
Pakistani English-language newspaper Dawn reported that the bomb went off on the motorway connecting Malam Jabba and Swat. According to Pakistani police, the explosion was triggered by a remotely controlled improvised explosive device (IED). (un)