CHARSADDA: Eleven people, including six policemen suffered injuries in a bomb blast in Saro Kalley area of Shabqadar here on Monday morning.

The police told Dawn that terrorists exploded a bomb, which was planted on a road under construction in Maasam Korona area near Qila Shah Bag, by remote control when the Saro Kalley police station’s patrol van reached there.

They said the blast injured Saro Kalay police station SHO Wilayat Khan, head constables Ayayaz Khan and Mohammad Fawad and constables Zakir Ali, Shah Faqir and Asif Khan. The police said the explosion also damaged a school van passing by and thus, injuring five people, including driver, two students and two people.

They said the injured were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Shabqadar from where those in critical condition were referred to hospitals in Peshawar.

The personnel of bomb disposal unit inspected the blast site and collected evidence.

They later told reporters that the bomb weighed from seven to eight kilogrammes and was exploded by remote control.

The police said they had begun investigation after registering a case against miscreants.

Meanwhile, security personnel cordoned off the area after the blast and began a door-to-door search operation.

Several suspected people were held and shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation.

No terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. District nazim Fahad Riaz Khan visited the THQ Hospital Shabqadar to inquire after the injured.

POLICEMAN KILLED: A police man was killed and his two brothers suffered injuries when their rivals opened fire on them over a property dispute in Tebna Dheri area here on Monday.

Injured Zarshad told the Khanmai police that Yaqub, Sardar Hussain, Nadir, Mohammad Hussain, Hamid and Kashif opened indiscriminate fire on him and brothers Zahoor and Ammad.

He said the firing left Zahoor, a police official, dead on the spot and inflicted injuries on him and Ammad. The police said they had registered a case before beginning investigation into the incident.

Published in Dawn, September 27th, 2016