No declare of duty for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province assaults which passed off as nation carries out its seventh census.
Islamabad, Pakistan – Two policemen accompanying inhabitants census groups have been killed in separate assaults in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In one of many incidents, a bunch of attackers on Monday ambushed a police car carrying 9 males, Waqar Ahmed, the district police officer of Tank district, advised Al Jazeera.
“There have been 10 to 12 attackers who had been hiding in a water channel, from which they began firing on our cellular. The police retaliated however one constable, Khan Nawab, died within the trade of fireside,” Ahmed stated.
4 different cops had been wounded within the assault, together with two who suffered severe accidents and had been transferred to the provincial capital of Peshawar for remedy.
In a press release on Monday night, the Pakistani navy’s media wing stated safety forces chased after the attackers and killed a “terrorist commander” it recognized as “Abdul Rasheed alias Rasheedi”. It added he was needed by police for involvement “in quite a few terrorist actions” towards the safety forces in addition to the killing of civilians, with out elaborating.
The opposite assault passed off on Monday afternoon in Lakki Marwat district, about 86km (52 ​​miles) north of Tank.
It was carried out “by two hooded males who rode a bicycle and opened hearth on the census workforce, which resulted within the loss of life of constable Dil Jan”, Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Shahid Hameed advised Al Jazeera.
The attackers managed to flee after killing the official, Hameed stated.
There was no declare of duty for both assault.
Pakistan on March 1 kicked off its seventh census, a data-gathering train that’s anticipated to final till April 1.
The nation has not too long ago seen an increase in assaults on its safety forces by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an armed group also referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, after it unilaterally ended a ceasefire settlement with the federal government in November final yr.
Amongst its many calls for, the TTP seeks stricter enforcement of Islamic legal guidelines, the discharge of its members from authorities custody, and a discount in Pakistani navy presence in components of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province bordering Afghanistan.
It additionally seeks to reverse the 2018 merger of Pakistan’s tribal districts with neighboring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
