Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
KHYBER: A terrorist attack on a police checkpoint in Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, resulted in the martyrdom of at least three police officers on Thursday.
The police station was set on fire after the checkpoint in Tekhta Beg was attacked by terrorists who utilised explosive material, according to the local police.
Firefights between the police and terrorists are still going on.
The Pak-Afghanistan highway was shut down immediately after the attack, and a sizable police detachment was sent to the checkpoint.
The attack on the police checkpoint was described as a suicide attack by Jamrud SHO Shah Khalid while speaking to reporters. The checkpoint was entered by the suicide bomber, who then detonated himself.
He said, “When the police saw the suicide bomber, they opened fire on the target.”
Manzoor Shah and Younis Khan, two policemen, were killed in the attack, and Rafiq, a chef at the checkpoint, died from his injuries after being taken to a hospital in Peshawar.
Pakistan earlier in the day requested the Iranian authorities to look into the cross-border terror incident in the Panjgur district of Balochistan and bring the perpetrators to justice as the nation continues to deal with cross-border terrorism.
On January 14, amid a gunfight with terrorists who had launched a nighttime attack at a police station in Peshawar, three police officers, among them, were also embraced martyrs.
