At least three people were killed and 23 others wounded in a suicide attack on a police truck in western Pakistan on Wednesday.
The attack, which targeted a police team preparing to escort polio vaccinators, was later claimed by the domestic chapter of the Taliban.
The Pakistan Taliban – known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – are separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan but share a common ideology.
On Monday, the group announced an end to a shaky cease-fire with Islamabad declared over the summer and ordered nationwide attacks to resume.
Senior police official Azhar Mehesar told AFP the blast targeted a police team preparing to escort polio vaccinators in the city of Quetta and that those killed “include a policeman, a woman and a child”.
In a statement to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), the TTP claimed responsibility for the attack and said it would soon share further details.
The group was founded in 2007 by Pakistani terrorists who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s, before opposing Islamabad’s support for American intervention there after 9/11.
For a time they held vast tracts of Pakistan’s rugged tribal belt and patrolling territory just 140 kilometers (85 miles) from the Pakistan capital.
