Senior Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Omar Khalid Khorasani and two others members of the banned outfit were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan on Monday, according to Taliban spokesman Muhamamad Khorasani. Omar's real name was Abdul Wali Mohmand and he previously headed the TTP in the Mohmand Agency bordering Afghanistan. In a statement today, TTP officials said that the car carrying Omar came under attack in the eastern Paktika province near the Barmal district on Sunday evening.

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