Blast near Pak poll rally kills two

A bomb attack claimed by the Taliban near an election rally in restive northwest Pakistan killed two people and injured six including a candidate yesterday, police said.
The roadside bomb exploded in the town of Bannu where Adnan Wazir, a former legislator from the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was heading a convoy of dozens of vehicles to address the rally,
"The remote-controlled bomb hit the convoy and damaged several vehicles. Two people later died in hospital," Nisar Ahmed Tanoli, a senior police official told AFP.
Wazir, a candidate for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly in the May 11 national and local polls, was among six injured.
The umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the bombing and threatened more attacks against the ANP.