The injured have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for treatment, the district police officer said.
"Ikramullah's guard and driver have also been injured in the attack," the DPO added.
Following the incident, security forces and police reached the site and cordoned off the area. Investigations are under way, the police said.
Sources said the incident appears to be a suicide attack.
The former agriculture minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is contesting the July 25 polls from PK-99 (DI Khan-V).
Ikramullah's brother, Israrullah Gandapur, a PTI provincial minister, was killed in a suicide bombing in October 2013 in Kalachi in a suicide attack.
Electioneering marred by violence
A spate of terrorist attacks has taken place in the current month. On July 10, a bomb targeted a rally by the Awami National Party (ANP) in Peshawar, martyring local party leader Haroon Bilour along with 21 others.
An attack on a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) convoy in Bannu on July 13 followed the tragic Peshawar incident. The Bannu incident claimed lives of at least four people, while 10 others were injured in the explosion.
Later the same day, in what was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country's history, over 130 people were martyred when a suicide bomber blew himself up during an election rally of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate Nawab Siraj Raisani in Mastung's Darengarh area.
Raisani was among those killed instantly while the death toll of the blast presently stands at 151.
A week after the Mastung blast, on July 16, ANP leader Daud Khan Achakzai was injured after unidentified persons opened fire on the guest house of the party's candidate Zmrak Khan Achakzai in Chaman.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and former federal minister Sheikh Aftab Ahmed's vehicle was fired at in Attock as was the convoy of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa in Multan recently.
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