KHYBER: Unidentified gunmen killed a police constable in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber tribal district on Tuesday.
Officials said Maamor Khan, a member of the Jamrud SHO’s mobile squad, was on way home when two armed men riding a motorcycle opened firing, killing him on the spot.
The assailants managed to escape. The body of the deceased was shifted to Jamrud Civil Hospital for postmortem.
The police registered a case against unknown assailants and started investigations. They said the incident seemed to be a targeted killing.
Meanwhile, a vendor sustained critical injuries due to a gas cylinder blast in Jamrud Bazaar.
The injured was identified as Ihsan, a resident of Swat. He was shifted to Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar.
Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2020
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