Two policemen martyred in IED blast in Bajaur
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Two policemen were martyred on Saturday in Bajaur tribal district after an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered during a routine patrol.
Bajaur's District Police Officer (DPO) Samad Khan told Dawn that the police officers were deployed near Raghagan Dam when the IED got set off at around 10:30am.
The DPO said that one of the martyred was a sepoy while the other was a havaldar. The bodies were transferred to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital while the police had started a search operation in the area and set up an additional check post.
Another explosion took place near a police mobile in Quetta later in the day in which seven people, including a police official, were injured.
On October 16, the body of a policeman earlier reported as missing was found in Alizai area of Khar tehsil in Bajaur.
In August, two policemen were injured when suspected criminals hurled a grenade at a police party during a raid on a house in Khar.
Zahid Imdad is a staff reporter at the Dawn News (TV) bureau in Peshawar with seven years of journalistic experience. He covers crime, terrorism, sports, culture, and human rights issues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He can be found on X at @zahidimdad2.
