
At least one man was killed and several others injured when a local court was attacked in Pakistan's northwest Charsadda district on Tuesday morning, local media and officials said.
Local Urdu TV channel ARY said that one man, most likely to be one of the attackers, got killed in the shootout by police.
Tahir Zafar, deputy commissioner of Charsadda, confirmed that the blast went off at the main gate of the court in Tangi area of the district in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
He said that the blast was followed by a firing in which several people got injured.
A police contingent has rushed to the court as firing still continued in the area, Zafar said.
The injured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital, he added.
No group has claimed the attack yet.
Source: Xinhua
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