Bajaur (Web Desk): At least five police personnel were martyred and 27 others were injured on Monday in a blast near a police van in the Mamund tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bajaur district.
According to police, the officials were on their way to provide security to polio teams as a vaccination campaign was under way in the region.
The deceased and injured have been shifted to Khar hospital, where an emergency was declared.
The medical superintendent at Khar District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ), said that 12 out of the wounded were being treated at the hospital while 10 others seriously injured had been referred to a Peshawar medical facility.
According to a Rescue 1122 statement, rescue teams in Mohmand and Lower Dir districts were also put on “alert”.
Caretaker KP Chief Minister Justice (retd) Arshad Hussain Shah condemned the blast and expressed his grief on the “martyrdom of police officials”.
Praying for the speedy recovery of the wounded, CM Shah directed the district administration to ensure the provision of timely aid to them.
“The police morale would not be defeated by such cowardly incidents,” the KP CM said.
He vowed to provide “every possible support” to the bereaved families.