Two police personnel, including an additional station house officer (SHO), lost their lives in an armed assault on a police patrol in Mohmand district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The attack occurred near the Warsak Lift Canal in the Machni area, where armed assailants targeted the police mobile patrol. The additional SHO and an elite force constable were fatally shot in the attack, while the driver of the vehicle sustained injuries and was transported to Peshawar for medical care.
The police have identified Fitna al Khawarij terrorists, associated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as the perpetrators behind the assault. Following the incident, police, district administration officials, and rescue teams swiftly responded to the scene and launched a rescue operation. This attack adds to a series of incidents targeting law enforcement personnel in Pakistan, particularly in the border regions of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In a separate incident on June 27, four police officers were wounded when a bomb detonated near their vehicle in the Dasht area of Mastung district in Balochistan province. The explosion occurred as the police vehicle, transporting prisoners from Dasht court to Mastung jail, passed through the Mian Ghandi Link Road. The vehicle sustained damage in the blast, and the injured officers received medical attention at the site.
On June 14, a suicide attack on a police check post in the Wahwa area near the Punjab-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border resulted in the deaths of two police personnel and injuries to six others. The check post suffered significant damage when unidentified assailants drove an explosives-laden vehicle into its main gate, causing an explosion. The injured officers were promptly taken to the hospital for treatment, and investigations into the attack are ongoing.
