KOHAT, June 26: Another injured constable of the attack on a police mobile last week succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Tuesday. Eight people, policemen among them, were killed in the remote control bomb attack.

The victim constable, Faheem, was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Ustarzai with full honour in the presence of senior police officers.

Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Trade Malik Abbas Afridi, has vowed to solve the problems of the tribal areas on priority basis.

He was talking to delegations from his home con-stituency of PK-37 and tribal area of Kohat on Tuesday.

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