April 2007 Charsadda bombing | |
Location: | Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
Date: | 28 April 2007 |
Partof: | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Type: | Suicide bombing |
Weapons: | Explosive belt |
Fatalities: | 28 |
Injuries: | 52 |
On 28 April 2007, at least 28 people were killed and about 52 others wounded in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.[1] [2] The injured included Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. Shortly before the bomber detonated his explosive belt, security guards stopped him from getting closer to Sherpao,[1] whom he was three metres (10 feet) away from at the time of the explosion.[2]
Charsadda later suffered major insurgent attacks in December 2007, February 2008, May 2011, January 2016 and February 2017.