A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), along with his gunmen, was martyred in a militant attack targeting a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat, according to a statement issued by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police on Saturday.
It added that the policemen came under attack near the Manjiwala Chowk as a result of which Lakki Marwat DSP Gul Mohammad Khan and Constable Naseem Gul embraced martyrdom, while another policeman sustained injuries and was shifted to a hospital.
A heavy contingent of police reached the spot after the incident and launched a search operation.
In a separate incident on Friday, a police constable was martyred when unidentified armed men opened fire on the post-polio campaign assessment team in the Manra area in Birmil tehsil in Lower South Waziristan district.
SHO Zabihullah Wazir of Raghzai Police Station said that the post-polio campaign assessment/monitoring team was on a visit to the area when unidentified persons fired at the police constable on security duty killing him on the spot.
However, the polio monitoring staff escaped unhurt in the firing.
The latest terror attack is a grim reminder that the security situation in the provinces bordering Afghanistan is precarious.
A quarterly report issued by the Islamabad-based Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) noted the worsening security situation in KP and Balochistan.
The report stated that at least 92% of all fatalities and 86% of attacks, including those related to terrorism and security forces operations, were recorded in the two provinces in the first quarter of 2024.
