PESHAWAR: Two police constables were killed and a sub-inspector suffered critical wounds in roadside bomb explosion in the Hazarkhwani area of Peshawar city here on Thursday morning.

An Official said that the Yakatut police were on routine patrolling duty and the moment they were passing through the Rehman Baba graveyard near at Chishtiabad the vehicle they were riding was blown up by a powerful remote control bomb.

The official said that as a result of the blast a constable, Shafqat Ali of Surizai village, was killed on the spot and another constable, Alamzeb Khan of Chamkani village, succumbed to his wounds in the Lady Reading Hospital.

A police Sub-Inspector Nasrat Khan also suffered serious wounds and was admitted to the Lady Reading Hospital. A hospital source said that he had suffered injuries on various parts of his body, however, his condition was stable.

An official of the bomb disposal squad said that the explosives weighed about five kilograms and were planted in some bushes. He said parts of electric wire, a battery and detonator were found.

The official said it seemed that the explosive had been planted in a plastic bucket whose parts could not be found from the crime scene.

The City Circle SP Ejaz Abid told reporters that the militants had earlier committed a robbery attempt in the area where the bomb was planted. He said the police party was sent to know the facts and as it reached the spot it suffered the attack.

A police statement issued here said that the funeral prayers of the slain policemen were offered at the Malik Saad Shaheed Police lines, and later their bodies were sent for burial in their native areas.

Another official of the Yakatut police station said that a police van had been blown up in a bomb explosion at Hazarkhwani Road on June 8, and that the personnel were using a motorcar for patrolling duties, but it was also targeted.

Another police constable identified as Hassan Shah, and two passersby, Zulfiqar and Sher Zada, were injured in a separate incident when suspected militants hurled a hand grenade on a police check post at Inqilab Road in Dandhono area on Wednesday night.

A police official of Chamkani Police station told Dawn that two suspected militants riding a motorcycle was flagged down by the police but that they instead lobbed a hand grenade and sped away.

The police, he said, had started a search for the culprits but no one had so far been arrested in this regard.

Meanwhile, the Badbher police said that no clue had so far been found about the suspected militants who had attacked police with hand grenades on Kohat Road on Wednesday evening and left behind an explosive laden motorcar when signaled by police.

The body of the militant who blew himself up with a hand grenade had been shifted to the local mortuary, but nobody approached the police to receive it.

The officials at the mortuary said that the militant had a beard and long hair. He received deep wounds to his chest and head.

Cases pertaining to all the incidents were registered the relevant incidents against unidentified terrorists.