DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least five security and customs personnel were killed in two separate attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, police said on Tuesday.
In the first attack, militants targeted a traffic police vehicle near Mufti Mahmood Chowk in the limits of Dera Town police station, killing constable-driver Mohammad Habib and seriously wounding head constable Subhan Khan, police said.
Rescue teams shifted the casualties to the Trauma Centre at the district headquarters hospital.
Police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation, but no arrests had been reported.
The attack was the second targeting a traffic police vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the past 10 days.
In a separate attack near Qureshi Mor and Abhaya Bridge in the Gomal University police station area, gunmen opened fire on customs personnel, killing four officers, a police spokesperson said.
The attackers fled the scene after the assault. Police collected evidence and launched an investigation.
Recent Attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The latest attacks come amid a rise in militant violence across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On Sept. 28, three traffic police personnel were killed and two passers-by wounded when gunmen attacked a police vehicle in Tank district’s Wazirabad area. The attackers fled on motorcycles after taking the officers’ weapons, police said.
On Sept. 27, three people were killed and three others wounded in a militant attack in Lakki Marwat district.
On Sept. 26, a suspected suicide bombing and gunfire at a checkpoint in Dera Ismail Khan killed 12 people and wounded 35, according to police.
On Sept. 18, an attack at the old police lines in Kohat during Friday prayers killed 21 people and wounded more than 100.
