At least five people were killed and ten injured in a suicide blast during wedding celebrations at the residence of a peace committee member in Pakistan's
northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday night. District Police Officer Dera Ismail Khan district, Sajjad Ahmed Sahibzada, confirmed that it was a suicide bombing that occurred during a wedding celebration at the residence of the peace committee chief Noor Alam Mehsud near Qureshi morr., as reported by news agency PTI. Initial reports said peace committee leader Waheedullah Mehsud, alias Jigri Mehsud, was among the dead. The guests were reportedly dancing when the attack happened. The blast caused the room’s roof to collapse, hampering rescue operations and making it difficult to reach those trapped under the debris. In a statement, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rescue 1122 spokesperson Bilal Ahmed Faizi said five bodies and 10 injured were rushed to the hospital. He said that seven ambulances, a fire vehicle and a disaster vehicle reached the site of the incident soon after it was reported. Authorities cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the incident. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi strongly condemned the blast and sought a report from the KP inspector general of police. He said that those responsible would be brought to justice.
This is not the first such incident. Earlier this month, armed assailants had killed four members of a peace committee in KP’s Bannu district. In November 2025, seven people were killed when a peace committee office was attacked, also in KP’s Bannu district. Police officials said that among those killed was a ‘good Talib’, a term used to refer to a former militant who has surrendered to the state, and the rest were his relatives.
In a separate incident, at least nine members of a family were killed when an avalanche buried their house in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as heavy snowfall blanketed several regions of the country. An avalanche struck a house in Damil area in Serigal village in the extreme south of Chitral district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday afternoon killing nine people.
Lower Chitral Deputy Commissioner Hashim Azim said the bodies were recovered from the debris, while a nine-year-old boy survived and was rushed to the hospital.
Avalanches triggered by snowfall on Friday brought life to a standstill across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), blocking roads, stranding travellers and disrupting electricity and relief operations amid freezing temperatures.
