A police official and his brother were martyred in a gun attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Tuesday.

The constable had completed his polio duty and was travelling to his village with his brother when motorcycle-riding terrorists opened fire near the Chwar Khel area, said a spokesperson for Lakki Marwat police.

The bodies of Amir Nawaz and Ameer Mohammad, siblings of former district councilor Ali Gul, were transferred to the district headquarters hospital.

Immediately after the incident, a heavy police contingent reached the scene and launched a search operation in the area to arrest the culprits.

The funeral prayers of the martyred constable and his brother were offered later in the evening

District Police Officer Nazir Khan, Deputy Commissioner Hamidullah Khan, SP Investigation Murad Ali Khan, along with other senior police and district administration officials, police personnel, and a large number of relatives of the martyrs, attended the funeral.

In another attack on a polio team in KP’s Bajaur, a constable and another person were martyred in Salarzai tehsil after unidentified assailants attacked a polio team as the nationwide polio campaign entered its second day.

On December 1, a cop was martyred while five others were injured in a suicide blast targeting a police mobile in KP’s Lakki Marwat district.

In November, three police personnel were martyred as law enforcers responded to a terrorist attack on a checkpost in KP’s Hangu.

As militant attacks in KP surge, the provincial police force had asked the government to grant a special allowance to its personnel, which would cost around Rs4.2 billion per month.

Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities over the past year, especially in KP and Balochistan, after the TTP ended its ceasefire with the government in November 2022. With the end of the ceasefire, the TPP had vowed to attack security forces, police, and personnel of law enforcement agencies.