Militancy: One killed in Peshawar

Blast in Hangu injures six policemen on patrol duty.

PESHAWAR:

One person was killed and six policemen were injured in two separate bomb blasts in Peshawar and Hangu districts on Wednesday, police said.

Separately, suspected militants blew up two electricity pylons in the suburbs of the provincial capital early on Wednesday.

The first attack took place in the limits of the Mattani Police Station when a planted device was detonated after a donkey cart passed over it. The cart driver, identified as Miskeen Khan, and his two donkeys died on the spot.

Police sources said that the incident took place in Maryamzai Village around 10:30 am as the donkey cart was carrying fuel wood to a local market.

Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) officials said that at least four kilogrammes of explosives were packed inside a pressure cooker vessel.

Police said that the link road where the blast took place was mostly used by volunteers of the Adezai Qaumi Lashkar. A suicide attack on the lashkar on March 9 killed around 43 and injured 47 others.

Separately, a remote-controlled blast targeting a police patrol vehicle injured at least six policemen in Hangu.

Police sources said that the attack was carried out in the Darsmand area of Doaba Police Station. The police said that the patrol vehicle was on its way to Darsmand to investigate an earlier attack, in which a CD shop was blown up in the same area by militants.

The blast injured six policemen including SHO Doaba Gulzar Khan.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 24^th, 2011.