PESHAWAR: A member of the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police was martyred on Tuesday whereas defusing an improvised explosive system (IED) inside an deserted police publish in Peshawar’s Hassan Khel subdivision, police mentioned.
In accordance with the police, the publish within the Faqeeri Banr space of Hassan Khel had been deserted and was mendacity vacant. Terrorists had detonated one IED contained in the publish and left one other unexploded.
“It was a vacant publish and terrorists had already detonated one IED inside it, however they left one other one unexploded. A BDU member, Khaisat Rehman, who had traveled from the provincial capital, was trying to defuse the second IED when it exploded,” a senior police official mentioned. Daybreak.
He mentioned the realm was instantly cordoned off and a search operation was launched.
Hassan Khel, positioned about 50 miles south of the provincial capital, has witnessed a surge in terrorist assaults on regulation enforcement businesses over the previous 4 years.
On July 1, a girl was killed and 6 others of the identical household have been injured when a suspected drone strike passed off in Pastawana—a village positioned up within the mountainous terrain of Hassan Khel subdivision.
Sources within the space said that the suspected strike, which focused a home, had initially left seven individuals wounded; A girl later succumbed to accidents whereas being shifted to the hospital, including that the victims have been instantly shifted to Shamshato Hospital positioned on the border between Peshawar and Nowshera districts, the place 4 individuals, having sustained minor accidents, have been discharged.
On June 9, six Federal Constabulary (FC) personnel have been martyred and 4 have been injured whereas responding to an try by terrorists to seize a publish within the Hassan Khel space. Eight terrorists have been additionally killed in retaliatory motion, and the try and seize the publish was foiled.