Two DI Khan traffic wardens martyred

Two cops were shot dead in Tank a day earlier

DI KHAN:

Two wardens of traffic Two wardens of traffic police were gunned down by unidentified miscreants in DI Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Tuesday.

Police told The Express Tribune that both the wardens identified as ticketing officer Shaukat and constable Habibullah were deployed near Sabzi Mandi and they were performing their duty as per their daily routine when armed bike riders attacked them around 9am in the morning.

“Both of them died on the spot. Rescue 1122 ambulance rushed them to hospital but they were already dead,” said an official of the local police, adding that a contingent of police reached the scene and cordoned off the entire locality. They conducted a search operation but the attackers had managed to escape after committing the crime.

An investigation team has been formed which has been tasked with probing the case from different aspects.

The last rites of the slain traffic police wardens were offered at police lines attended by police high-ups and officers of the district administration.

Later the coffins were sent to the slain cops’ ancestral graveyard for burial.

The attack took place a day after a similar assault in the adjoining Tank district in which two policemen were killed.

Police said that both constables Hameed Shah and Naheed Khan were intercepted by armed men who snatched their mobiles and cash and then opened fire at them, killing both of them.

Police believed that the Tank incident was an act of terrorism and opened investigation in the case.

In a terrorist attack in Swabi district a police head constable was ambushed and killed when he was on his way to office in the morning last Thursday.

Earlier another constable of Swabi police Afzal Sadiq Bacha had been found murdered inside his house.

The terrorism incidents have been on the rise across K-P and in the tribal districts. In North Waziristan polio teams have repeatedly been attacked by terrorists.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 6^th, 2022.