LAKKI MARWAT, March 15: Unidentified miscreants reportedly belonging to timber mafia attacked a two-member raiding party of the forest department near Dallokhel on Lakki-Tajazai road, injuring one of them, said a police official on Saturday.

“Forester Hamidullah and forest guard Ghulam Murtaza were on a routine patrol on Lakki-Tajazai road for ensuring safety of roadside trees and check the saplings recently planted for the spring season,” the official told.

He said that the raiding team found two people busy in cutting trees near Dallkhel Phattak. “The forest officials attempted to stop the unidentified men apparently looking like members of a timber mafia from cutting trees but they attacked them with axes and injuring forester Hamidullah,” official maintained, saying that both the accused managed to flee the spot leaving behind a donkey cart and a heap of wood that they had cut before the arrival of the forest officials.

Lakki police have filed a case against unidentified accused under relevant section of law.