BAJAUR: A police official, who was critically injured in the last week’s fatal ambush on a police patrol by unidentified assailants, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Tuesday.

Family and police sources said Irshad Khan, 40, who had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Peshawar after being injured in the last Wednesday’s attack on the Ababeel Squad -- an exclusive patrolling force -- in Khar tehsil, breathed his last on Tuesday afternoon. The attack had left four cops martyred and two injured.

Amir Zada, a relative of the deceased, told Dawn that funeral prayers of the deceased would be offered in his native Gardai area on Wednesday (today).

Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2026