An improvised explosive device (IED) went off close to a police van in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Buner district on Wednesday, injuring four cops, including the police post’s in-charge, a police official said.
Israr Ahmad, the district police officer for Buner, gave an interview to Dawn.com and stated, “A police vehicle was on its routine patrol in the Nawagai area, and when it reached the Kankai Chowk, an IED exploded.”
According to the police official, the attack injured Constable Noor Mohammad, the driver, Constable Iftikhar Ali, Constable Altaf Ahmad, and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASP), Shahid Zada, who was in command of the police post at Ambela.
He stated, “The injured police officers have been moved to a nearby hospital and their condition is stable.”
Ahmed continued by saying that after the attack, police launched a search and rescue operation in the region, with Shah Hassan, the District Police Officer (DPO), spearheading the search for the person responsible for the attempted murder of the police officers.
The event is the most recent in a line of assaults, mostly in KP and Balochistan, against police officers and checkpoints.
Unidentified criminals set fire to a government primary school in Buner in September and detonated an IED as a police team was returning from the Meragai school that had burned down. There were no confirmed casualties in that incident.
Five terrorists wearing suicide vests and burqas were slain in an attack on Monday, while four police officers accepted death in an effort to stop a gun and bomb attack on the Iqbal Shaheed Police Lines in Bannu.
Incidents of terrorism have increased recently in Pakistan, especially in KP and Balochistan. Following the TTP’s 2022 breach of a tenuous ceasefire agreement with the government and their threat to target security forces, attacks have intensified.
