BANNU: Two cops were injured in two separate attacks targeting the police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Saturday night, police sources told Dawn on Sunday.
In the first incident, armed assailants opened fire at the Khonia Khel police check post in Bannu’s Wazir sub-division, prompting the police to retaliate, the sources said, adding that the attack was carried out by terrorists.
Cop Noor Muhammad was injured in the exchange of fire, they said.
Details regarding the losses inflicted on the terrorists could not be immediately confirmed.
A search operation was launched in the area, and security has been further tightened, according to the sources.
In the other incident, which occurred on Bannu’s DI Khan Road, Mirakhel police came under attack while they were transporting the body of a murdered person to the hospital, sources said.
Armed assailants opened fire on police, as a result of which one policeman, Azmat, was injured, they added.
A total of six assailants were involved in the attack, riding three motorcycles, as per the police’s initial report.
The assailants fled the site of the incident after the attack.
Saturday night’s incidents come just around 10 days after a militant attack on a police vehicle in Bannu’s Domel area was repulsed.
Earlier on January 8, three cops were injured when a police vehicle transporting prisoners to Hangu had come under attack in Bannu.