| April 2007 Charsadda bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Location | Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
| Date | 28 April 2007 |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Weapons | Explosive belt |
| Deaths | 28 |
| Injured | 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, mainly carried out by internationally designated terrorist group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
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