At least 24 people, including women and children, were killed on Monday in Tirah Valley’s Matur Dara area in Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan, according to PTI . Several others were reportedly injured in the incident.

PTI cited police as saying the deaths occurred after explosive materials stored at a compound linked to the Pakistani Taliban detonated. Station House Officer Zafar Khan told PTI that 14 militants and 10 civilians, including women and children, were among those killed.

The local administration reportedly denied claims that Pakistani fighter jets carried out airstrikes, attributing the explosion to the unsafe storage of explosives at the compound, which has been described as a hub for bomb-making and militant training. Residents, howev

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