The incident occurred in Pir Qayyum area of the tribal district.
The bus was going from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar to Parachinar, the main town of Kurram Agency.
Two persons were killed instantly and 17 injured persons were taken to a hospital in Parachinar, security officials told TV news channels.
Hundreds of people have lost their lives in sectarian violence between rival Shia and Sunni tribesmen in Kurram Agency over the past four years.
No group claimed responsibility for today's attack.
from deccanherald
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from DAWN:
SADDA: Two people were killed and 17 others wounded when a homemade bomb exploded next to a bus on the outskirts of the town of Sadda in the northwestern Kurram tribal region, near the Afghanistan border, local government officials said.
The Pakistani military has been conducting offensives against militant hideouts in Kurram, and dozens have been killed in intense fighting since the start of the year.
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