On 28 April 2007, at least 28 people were killed and about 52 others wounded in a

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Charsadda Chārsadda (; ; ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010. It was established on 9 November ...

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. The injured included

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Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. Shortly before the bomber

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s stopped him from getting closer to Sherpao, whom he was three metres (10 feet) away from at the time of the

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. Charsadda later suffered major

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attacks in December 2007,

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, May 2011, January 2016 and February 2017.

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