International Desk: Five policemen were killed and 12 others were injured in a terrorist attack in Pakistan. Civilians are also among the injured. The terrorist attacked a government office and a police post in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of the country within a few hours. news don Officials said that around 11 a.m.
local time on Thursday, the gun battle with the police started when the policemen blocked the entry of the two suicide bombers at the entrance of the tehsil headquarters adjacent to Bara Bazar police station in Khyber district. At this time, one militant was killed, and the other made a suicide blast. A part of the tehsil building collapsed due to the blast.
Three policemen were killed on the spot, and 10 people, including seven policemen, were injured. Salim Abbasi, the local police chief, said that they had received information about the possible attack in advance, so the police were on high alert. As a result, the area was spared from major destruction.
Stating that many people come to this office every day, he said, “Many lives have been saved due to the strengthening of security measures based on intelligence information.” A vehicle was seized on the spot. Police believe that the attackers used it to reach the tehsil headquarters. All the injured in this incident have been admitted to the military hospital in Peshawar. The condition of an injured policeman is critical.
A few hours before this attack, there was an attack on a police outpost in Peshawar’s Regi Model Town around 12 p.m. on Wednesday. Two policemen were killed and two others were injured in the firing by the militants. Police officials believe that the militants used night vision gadgets during the attack.
He said that the investigators recovered 21 M4 bullets from the spot, but the assailants escaped.
