TTP claims responsibility for Dera Ismail Khan suicide bombing

The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at a roadside police checkpoint in Dera Ismail Khan that killed at least 11 people and wounded about 30 others on Saturday, the group said in a statement. The claim is the new development in the attack reported earlier today.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the checkpoint in the district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in northwestern Pakistan, police and rescue officials said. Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the provincial emergency service, said the dead and wounded were being taken to a nearby hospital, with some of the injured in critical condition.

Pakistan has experienced a surge in militant attacks in recent years, many of them claimed by the TTP and the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, a separatist group mainly active in neighbouring Balochistan province. The TTP is separate from but allied with the Afghan Taliban, which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.

Sources

• Al Jazeera — Suicide bombing in Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan kills several people — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/26/blast-in-pakistans-dera-ismail-khan-kills-several-people
• AP (via mirror) — Suicide bombing at police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan kills at least 11 — https://venus.pp.ua/p/a%3A8209576321531%3Asuicide-bombing-police-checkpoint-northwestern-114511000