Suicide Bombing at Pakistan Military Site Kills 13 Civilians, 5 Soldiers

Suicide Bombing at Pakistan Military Site Kills 13 Civilians, 5 Soldiers
People attend funeral prayers for the victims of a suicide bombing, in Bannu, Pakistan, on March 5, 2025. Stringer/Reuters
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan—Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Bannu in northwestern Pakistan for the funerals on March 5 of 18 people, including six children, killed in a suicide attack on a security installation.

Suicide bombers drove two vehicles packed with explosives into the town’s military base in an attack staged by more than a dozen terrorists on March 4.