HARIPUR: A police constable was killed and two others sustained bullet wounds when alleged criminals opened firing on them in two different areas of the district.

Kotnajibullah police quoted constable Umair Asif of Rizwan Shaheed post as saying that he along with his colleague Khuda Bukhsh was on rider duty on Thursday night when two masked men opened firing on them on Chamba Pind Road and injured both of them.

He said that the masked men, armed with a repeater shotgun and a 30 bore pistol, were presumably standing on the roadside for some criminal activity.

The injured constables were shifted to trauma centre where Khuda Bukhsh was pronounced dead while Umair Asif was referred to Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad. Police registered a case against unidentified attackers.

The martyred constable was later buried in his native village Baeeyan Ahmed Ali Khan.

RPO Tahir Ayub, Hazara Commissioner Amir Sultan Tareen, other officers and villagers attended his funeral.

In the second incident, a police party raided a house to arrest an absconder identified as Mohammad Nasir in Pind Hashim Khan village in the limits of Saddar police station.

The absconder and his accomplices opened firing on the police party, injuring constable Malik Saifullah.

The attackers managed to escape while the injured constable was shifted to Ayub Medical Complex. Police said that Nasir was wanted by police in a narcotics case.

Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Gandapur visited Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad and enquired after the injured constables and presented them flowers. He appreciated the bravery of the injured and martyred policemen.

Meanwhile, a teenage boy drowned in Tarbela Lake, police and rescue workers said.

Police said that some youngsters were bathing in the lake near Darri Naka village on Sunday when one of them slipped into deep water and drowned.

The local rescue workers managed to retrieve the body after an effort of two hours and shifted it to the trauma centre where the deceased was identified as Mohammad Tayab, 18, a resident of Thandiyani village in Abbottabad.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2023