Traffic warden among six injured in Charsadda IED blast

Doctors amputated traffic police constable's leg in order to save his life


Riaz Ahmad July 29, 2016
Police officials inspect the site of a roadside bomb explosion in Peshawar on May 18, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

PESHAWAR: An improvised explosive device (IED) went off near Charsadda bus stand in the wee hour of Friday, leaving six people including a traffic warden wounded.

ASP Faqirabad Wasim Riaz told The Express Tribune that the ill-fated traffic police constable, Sajjad, was the militant’s actual target, however, five passers-by were also hit by the blast.

“It was a remote-controlled explosive device weighing around 1.5-kilogramme placed in ghee tin and had been concealed right in the middle of the road,” he added.

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The injured were rushed to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital. Police cordoned off the entire area soon after the incident.

Four out of six wounded people were discharged from the hospital after necessary medical treatment. However, Sajjad and Almas, cashier of the bus stand, are still being treated for their injuries, hospital sources told The Express Tribune. “Both of them had been critically injured in the IED attack,” one of the sources said.

The traffic constable was brought to the hospital in a critical condition and doctors had to amputate his leg in order to save his life, said a doctor at the LRH. “For now he is in the general ICU of the hospital."

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