LAKKI MARWAT/BANNU: Three visitors police personnel had been martyred in firing by suspected terrorists within the Serai Naurang space of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Sunday.
Qudratullah, spokesperson for the district police officer (DPO), informed Daybreak the three visitors policemen had been on obligation close to the Dil Begu Khel space when “unidentified terrorists, who had been on a bike”, opened fireplace on them.
In consequence, they died on the spot, the spokesperson mentioned.
Ticketing officer in-charge Jalal Khan was among the many martyred, he mentioned, including that two different personnel had been recognized as Azizullah and Abdullah.
The our bodies had been moved to Naurang Hospital, and police have launched a search operation on the website of the incident, Qudratullah mentioned.
Later within the day, the funeral prayers of the martyred visitors cops had been supplied on the Lakki Marwat Police Strains with official honors. Police and district administration officers, the bereaved relations and different residents attended the prayers.
An announcement issued by KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s workplace mentioned he condemned the assault and termed the incident “unlucky”.
“Sacrifices of the martyred policemen won’t go in useless. Enemies of the nations can not succeed of their nefarious designs by such cowardly acts,” the assertion quoted him as saying.
He added that policemen had been on the entrance line within the battle in opposition to terrorism and had been rendering sacrifices.
The CM mentioned that the attackers can be delivered to justice and the provincial authorities was standing with the police.
He prolonged condolences to the bereaved households and prayed for the departed souls.
Individually, a police constable was martyred in firing by unidentified attackers within the Kashfi Khel space of KP’s Bannu district, spokesperson for the Bannu DPO Asif Hasan informed Daybreak.
He mentioned that the martyred constable, Rashid Khan, was leaving his house for work on Sunday morning when armed assailants, who had been on a bike, shot him.
Following the incident, a big contingent of police reached the scene, cordoned off the world, and picked up proof, the spokesperson mentioned. A search operation was additionally launched to arrest the attackers, he added.
President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his deep grief over the martyrdom of policemen within the firing incidents in Lakki Marwat and Bannu, a press release issued by the PPP mentioned.
The president paid tribute to the cops’ sacrifices and prayed for his or her excessive ranks. “The companies and sacrifices of policemen and safety forces to ascertain regulation and order are worthy of satisfaction,” he was quoted as saying.
Assaults in latest months
Legislation enforcement personnel have more and more come below assault in KP in latest days.
Final month, 5 policemen had been martyred when a police car was ambushed in KP’s Karak. In response to the assault, a big police contingent, together with the Counter-Terrorism Division’s commandoes, had launched an operation to search out the attackers. Eight terrorists had been killed in that operation.
On December 1, two policemen embraced martyrdom and 5 others had been injured in a suicide bombing and a gun assault in Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts.
In late November, three police personnel had been martyred as regulation enforcers responded to a terrorist assault on a checkpost in KP’s Hangu.
Equally, a police head constable was martyred when unidentified assailants opened fireplace at him in Mohammad Akbar village within the jurisdiction of Gul Imam police station of Tank district on November 9.
Previous to that, on October 24, three cops, together with a superintendent of police, had been martyred when back-to-back blasts rocked Hangu.
