Quetta violence: Four policemen killed in targeted attack - The Express Tribune

The police­men were on two motorc­ycles on their routin­e patrol along the railwa­y track. The policemen were on two motorcycles on their routine patrol along the railway track. PHOTO: INP/ FILE

QUETTA: 

Gunmen shot dead four policemen in a targeted attack in a residential neighbourhood of Quetta on Saturday. The attack took place on Saryab Road, near Sardar Musa Colony, according to police officials.

“Four policemen, riding on two motorcycles, were patrolling a railway track when gunmen opened fire on them,” said Qazi Wahid, the deputy inspector general of police (Operations).

“All of them died on the spot,” he added. “The gunmen escaped from the scene after the attack.”

Another police official told The Express Tribune that the police patrol was ordered at the request of railway authorities. Railway tracks have been repeatedly attacked in Balochistan where a tribal insurgency has become more deadly since 2006.

Police and paramilitary Frontier Corps have mounted a manhunt for the killers. Elsewhere, authorities have ordered law enforcers to be extra vigilant. The bodies of the victims were shifted to the Bolan Medical Hospital where they were identified as Razar Muhammad, Hafeezur Rehman, Sarfaraz and Abdul Kareem – all of them constables in the provincial police.

Funeral prayers for the slain cops were offered at the Police Line in Quetta and the bodies were later handed over to the heirs for burial.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2012.

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Targeted attack: Police officer killed in Peshawar roadside blast - The Express Tribune

A police party on routin­e patrol­ling was target­ed by the roadsi­de blast. A police official was killed and another injured in an explosion that targeted a police patrol in Charsadda. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD IQBAL/EXPRESS

PESHAWAR: 

A police officer was killed, while another was injured, after a roadside bomb exploded on Charsadda Road in Peshawar on Monday evening.

Officers told The Express Tribune that police personnel, including those from the community police, were on a routine patrol within the remits of Khazana Police Station when the explosion occurred, injuring two policemen.

One of the men, Javed, died after reaching the hospital.

DSP Riazul Islam told The Express Tribune that it was a powerful explosion which targeted a police patrol. “Police officer Gulzar is injured, but he is out of danger,” he said, adding that Javed was from the
community police and had been hired on a two-year contract.

Police cordoned off the area and commenced a search operation.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2012.

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