PTI Candidate Ikramullah Gandapur Martyred In D I Khan Suicide Attack

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Jul, 2018 ) :Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sardar Ikramullah Gandapur was martyred as a suicide bomber targetted his vehicle in DI Khan's Kulachi Tehsil on Sunday, family sources told a private news channel.

Gandapur was said to be leaving his home for an election meeting when his jeep was targetted.

The PTI candidate was among four injured in the attack and succumbed to his wounds at the hospital.

He was first taken to District Headquarters Hospital but was then shifted to the Combined Military Hospital's (CMH) operation theatre owing to his injuries.

"Ikramullah's guards and driver were also injured in the attack," the DPO while talking to a private news channel told, adding that their condition is critical.

Investigations are under way, the police said, adding that severed limbs of the suicide bomber have also been recovered from the blast site.

The former agriculture minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was set to contest the July 25 polls from PK-99 (DI Khan-V).

Gandapur's brother, Israrullah, was also killed on October 16, 2013 in a suicide bombing while greeting visitors on Eid-ul-Azha in his hometown of Kulachi.

He was a serving minister in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government at the time of his death and elected from the then-PK-67 constituency.

Gandapur was elected on his brother's seat after a by-election following his death.

Their father, Sardar Inayaltullah Khan Gandapur, also served as the chief minister and finance minister of then-NWFP government in the 1970s.