A police spokesman said that two police officers were among the five wounded in a bomb that happened in Peshawar on Friday morning.
Peshawar IED blast: According to Warsak Superintendent of Police (SP) Arshad Khan, “a remote-controlled IED (improvised explosive device) exploded while a police van was on patrol,” Dawn.com was informed.
As per the police officer, the event happened around about nine in the morning.
“The explosion used four to five kilogrammes of explosives,” SP Arshad said.
In addition, he said, “six to seven suspects have also been detained for investigation.”
Evidence has been gathered from the crime site, according to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Kashif Zulfiqar, who spoke with Dawn.com.
SSP Zulfiqar said, “Terrorist attacks on Warsak Road have increased.” “The Mathura police station was targeted by a grenade a few days ago.”
Police in the region are collaborating with the counterterrorism department (CTD), according to SSP Zulfiqar. “The areas around Warsak Road will see a joint operation.”
“The terrorist organisation will soon be revealed,” he said.
The event is the most recent in a line of assaults, mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, against police officers and checkpoints.
After the TTP, which is proscribed, breached a tenuous ceasefire deal with the government in 2022 and threatened to strike security personnel, attacks intensified.
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In Peshawar’s Regi Model Town, a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city was targeted by terrorists last month, injuring a policeman.
One hundred individuals, many of them police officers, were murdered in a suicide assault on a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines in January 2023.
The attack’s perpetrator, TTP, had taken credit. Although it eventually disassociated itself from it, previous reports suggested that it may have been the work of a local branch of the banned organisation.
