Cop among three martyred in DI Khan check-post attack

Three persons including a Quick Response Force personal were martyred and two others injured in exchange of fire after terrorists attacked security check-post here in the wee hours night.

Police DSP Hafiz Adnan informed that terrorists stormed Abba Shaheed security check-post in Dera Ismail Khan in the wee hours of Tuesday.

He said that the attackers fled the scene after retaliatory action of the Quick Response Force. However, in cross-fire, a Quick Response Force personnel was martyred while two labourers working in the fields were also killed while two others sustained injuries, the DSP added.

According to the police officer, the policemen on duty noticed the movement of terrorists through the thermal camera and repelled the first attack.

After the first attack, the terrorists fiercely attacked again which was retaliated by the police.

The exchange of fire remained continued for some time and then the terrorists managed to escape from the scene.

When the search operation was launched in the morning, the dead bodies of a policeman and two labourers named Ashiq son of Sona, a resident of Sheru Kuhna and Qamar Zaman son of Sulaiman, a resident of Kahawar were found there.

While two other labourers also got injured who were shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital by Rescue 1122 ambulances.

The bodies and injured were shifted to hospital.

The security personnel have launched a search operation in the area.

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