PESHAWAR: Four personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police were killed in a roadside explosion in Badhber village, near the provincial capital, on Monday.

According to a police official, the BDU personnel were going to Suleman Khel village where suspected militants had exploded a bomb outside a motorcycle spare parts shop early in the morning when their vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled bomb.

Three shops and a house were damaged in the first blast.

The BDU team’s Inspector in charge Abdul Haq, 61, of Batkhela; Kashif, 33, of Bahadur Killi; Imtiaz, 30, of Musazai; and Aminul Haq, 40, of Swabi, were killed and a passer-by was injured. The bomb weighed about 6kg.

Another bomb was defused in the same vicinity later.

Talking after the funeral prayers, provincial police chief Nasir Khan Durrani said police had recently repulsed four attacks on their posts and checkpoints.