Summary COAS General Raheel Sharif directed the authorities to give best treatment to the injured personnel.
BANNU (Dunya News) - Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Bannu on Tuesday and inquired after the health of injured personnel of Bannu blast.
The Army Chief also presented bouquets to the injured. He directed the authorities to give best treatment to the injured officials.
At least 22 personnel were martyred and more than 30 were injured when bomb struck a military convoy in Bannu on Sunday. Later the death toll reached 25 after three more officials succumbed to injuries at hospital. Security forces were reportedly patrolling the sensitive areas to avoid any untoward incident.
One of the officials said “the convoy was about to leave for Razmak town in North Waziristan when the tragedy struck", adding the blast occurred in one of the civilian vehicles hired for the movement of troops.
Bannu has been the site of several attacks targeting security forces in the past.
At least thirteen people including six security personnel have been killed in a suicide blast in a market close to Pakistan s military headquarters on Monday.
At least 17 people including three school children were also wounded in the blast which tore through RA bazaar in Rawalpindi, Islamabad s twin city, at around 7.45 am (0245 GMT).
Sajid Zafar Dall, the top government official in Rawalpindi, confirmed the blast was a suicide attack.
"The attack occurred when children were going to school. Our initial assessment is that the bomber was possibly on a bicycle and he then approached the target on foot."
It came a day after the Pakistani Taliban killed 25 soldiers and wounded 30 others in a suicide bombing in the northwestern town of Bannu.
The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement has been waging a bloody campaign since 2007, carrying out countless bomb and gun attacks, often on military targets.
The military headquarters came under attack in 2009, when militants laid siege to the complex for 24 hours. A total of 19 people died including eight militants.
Major naval and air force bases have also been targeted in recent years.
A senior Pakistani general was killed in a blast last September along with two other soldiers in an attack claimed by the Taliban.
