* More than 40 wounded as bomb explodes near administration office where refugees had lined up to get rations
Follow up:
JALOZAI: A car bomb tore through a refugee camp on Thursday, killing 15 people including women and children and heightening security fears before a May general election.
More than 40 other people were wounded when the bomb exploded at Jalozai, the country’s largest refugee camp, as scores of people queued for rations.
Jalozai is home to tens of thousands of people displaced from the tribal belt, a stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants, on the Afghan border.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
But officials linked the attack to fighting in Khyber district, where the military has stepped up an offensive against Taliban and local militia, and from where most camp residents have fled.
Follow up:
JALOZAI: A car bomb tore through a refugee camp on Thursday, killing 15 people including women and children and heightening security fears before a May general election.
More than 40 other people were wounded when the bomb exploded at Jalozai, the country’s largest refugee camp, as scores of people queued for rations.
Jalozai is home to tens of thousands of people displaced from the tribal belt, a stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants, on the Afghan border.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
But officials linked the attack to fighting in Khyber district, where the military has stepped up an offensive against Taliban and local militia, and from where most camp residents have fled.
