Casualties reported in bomb blasts, gunfire in Pakistan’s northwest

Two killed as motorcycle explodes outside police station in Bannu district; several reported killed in vehicle blast in Bajaur.Published On 17 Feb 2026Two bomb attacks and a gun battle between police and rebel fighters in northwest Pakistan have killed at least three people and possibly as many as a dozen, according to reports.The Associated Press news agency reported that two people were killed on Monday when explosives attached to a parked motorcycle detonated near the entrance of a police station in Bannu, a district in northwest Pakistan’s volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Palestinians in Gaza get creative to decorate for Ramadanlist 2 of 3Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor and star of The Godfather, dies aged 95list 3 of 3Two killed, 3 critical after shooting at hockey rink in US’s Rhode Islandend of listLater in the day, an explosives-laden vehicle detonated while being driven towards a security checkpoint in the province’s Bajaur district, local police official Zafar Khan told the AP, reporting that a girl was killed when a nearby building collapsed due to the force of the blast.According to Khan, at least eight members of the Pakistan Taliban group, known by the acronym TTP, were then killed by troops in a gun battle.Reporting on violence in Bajaur, the AFP News Agency said eight people were killed when a suicide bomber drove a vehicle rigged with explosives into the wall of a religious college in the district.“As a result, eight police and Frontier Corps personnel present inside the seminary were martyred and 10 others injured,” a security official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.It was not known if the explosions reported at the security checkpoint in Bajaur and the seminary blast in the district were linked or separate attacks.The official who spoke anonymously to AFP also reported that a child was killed when the roofs of nearby houses collapsed because of the explosion at the seminary.