SWABI - Ten people, including two policemen, were killed when a suicide bomber targeted the workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) near the Swabi interchange on Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway on Wednesday. The suicide attack was occurred just a minute before the arrival of JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at the interchange and some of the party sources said that the Maulana was the real target of the bomber. The JUI-F was scheduled to hold a public meeting at the Government High School, Swabi and the workers were told by former provincial education minister Maulana Fazal Ali that they should receive their party chief at Swabi interchange and from there he would be brought in a procession to the venue of public meeting.The blast occurred at 10:45 am and everyone present at the site was running for the cover. Eyewitnesses said the injured were crying for help and dead bodies were scattered all around. The injured were taken to the district headquarters hospital, Shahmansoor Hospital Complex and Khunda Civil Hospital.Police said head of the suicide bomber had been found. They further said that the student card of the bomber was also found and his name was Irshad. He hailed from Qambarabad of Khyber Agency. Police said they have been working on getting more information. Officials divulged about seven to eight kilogram of explosive was used in the attack. It was the second suicide attack in the district. In November 2010, a suicide bomber targeted the Swabi police at Shahmansoor, killing two policemen. The JUI-F workers said they received former chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Akram Khan Durrani at the interchange and as he left, they heard a big bang. They said they wanted to move further but the police officials stopped them. They claimed that Maulana Fazl reached the interchange just a minute after the blast. The party leaders stopped him there and started shifting the workers to the hospitals. District coordination officer Syed Abdul Jabar Shah said when the incharge of Khunda police post, Sardar Ali, moved to stop the suicide bomber, he blew himself up. The bomber was riding a motorcycle bearing no number plate. He said Maulana Fazl also reached the interchange soon after the explosion. I could not confirm that the bomber wanted to target Maulana Fazl. But it was true that he wanted to spread terror. He said seven people were killed on the spot and three more succumbed to their injuries later. Dr Gul Muhammad, the district health officer, said eight people have been shifted to Peshawar and the death toll might rise due to precarious condition of some injured. Agencies add: Speaking to a private TV channel, JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazl said he remained safe in the suicide attack at Ambar police checkpost. He said by the grace of Almighty Allah he escaped attempt on his life when he was on the way to address a gathering in Swabi. President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti condemned the suicide attack and directed the officials concerned to probe the incident. The Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province has frequently been the target of militant violence. More than 4,000 people have died in suicide and bomb attacks throughout the country since 2007. Meanwhile, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl group was not shaken by the suicide attack on the workers of JUI-F and moved forward to hold a public meeting here at the playground of Government High School playground on Wednesday. The workers of JUI-F were waiting for the arrival of their leader at Swabi interchange of Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway when the suicide bomber attacked them. Before entering the public meeting, Maulana Fazl visited the district headquarters hospital and Shah Mansoor Hospitals, and met with the injured workers and their relatives. After the attack, some of the workers proposed that their party should call off the scheduled public meeting, but it was decided by their leaders that they would hold the meeting at any cost. Maulana Fazl said that their workers were determined to continue their struggle. He said that the victimisation of the workers was a great loss for their party and families. He alleged that the prevailing instability across the country and continued war on terror was the result of wrong policies adopted by the rulers of the country. At the same time, he declared that so far the facts had not been unveiled by the concerned security agencies, he could not want to comment over it. We ask the government that why our workers faced the security lapse. Why they failed to make adequate security arrangements and why security was not provided to our workers, he questioned. He said that despite such incidents they would continue their struggle and no one could stop them from their march towards their destination. He alleged that the US was a terrorist state, and its policies were based on terrorism. In addition, he said that those who supported the American policies were also terrorists. He came down hard on Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan and said that he had buried the non-violence philosophy of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. When the former Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan the ANP leadership embraced them. Now when the American and NATO forces are butchering Pakhtoons they are standing side-by-side with them, he said. The war on terror was not our war and it was the American war fought on the Pakhtoon soil. We opposed this war and the killing of Pakhtoons was not acceptable to us, he said, adding that there was need of change in policies adopted by the government.