Peshawar: Gunmen killed two election campaigners in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal region on Monday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks ahead of historic polls next month.
The attackers ambushed a car carrying workers of independent candidate Abdul Rahim Burki in Dera Ismail Khan district, close to the lawless tribal area, police chief Khalid Sohail said.
Taliban militants have vowed to target secular parties running in the May 11 general elections and attacks in the northwest over the weekend left one person dead and four wounded.
"Two workers were killed and three wounded," he said, adding that the gunmen fled on a motorbike.
There are fears that militant violence will mar the national and regional elections on May 11, which will mark the country's first democratic transition of power after a civilian government has served a full term in office.
He told AFP that more than 80 percent of his voters were living in Dera Ismail Khan and nearby Tank districts, though their votes will count in the South Waziristan constituency.
"This is my first election. I have no party affiliation and I received no threats from any group so far," he told AFP.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the umbrella Taliban faction Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said it was behind two attacks on Sunday and the killing of a candidate for outgoing coalition partner the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the first to die in the election campaign, on Thursday.
The attackers ambushed a car carrying workers of independent candidate Abdul Rahim Burki in Dera Ismail Khan district, close to the lawless tribal area, police chief Khalid Sohail said.
Taliban militants have vowed to target secular parties running in the May 11 general elections and attacks in the northwest over the weekend left one person dead and four wounded.
"Two workers were killed and three wounded," he said, adding that the gunmen fled on a motorbike.
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There are fears that militant violence will mar the national and regional elections on May 11, which will mark the country's first democratic transition of power after a civilian government has served a full term in office.
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He told AFP that more than 80 percent of his voters were living in Dera Ismail Khan and nearby Tank districts, though their votes will count in the South Waziristan constituency.
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"This is my first election. I have no party affiliation and I received no threats from any group so far," he told AFP.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the umbrella Taliban faction Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said it was behind two attacks on Sunday and the killing of a candidate for outgoing coalition partner the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the first to die in the election campaign, on Thursday.
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