Five Policemen Injured In Blast In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistani newspapers have reported that five policemen were injured when an improvised explosive device went off along a road in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan city on Tuesday.
An official statement said that a police mobile patrol party was targeted with an IED in Kulachi tehsil. Dawn newspaper reported that the blast occurred when the vehicle of Kulachi police was on its way to a basic health unit in Maddi area for polio security duty on the second day of the anti-polio campaign.
As a result, five policemen were injured and the van was badly damaged. Soon after the incident and shifted the injured to a hospital, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
According to the bomb disposal squad, the device was planted on the roadside near a bridge, which exploded when a police mobile was passing by. The police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down the culprits. The Counter-Terrorism Department registered a case against the unidentified suspects.
