Unidentified terrorists on Saturday morning gunned down a police constable in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, causing widespread panic across the city.
In a separate incident, a policeman was also martyred in Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
This is the second attack on police in the last two days in the city. In both the cases the attackers managed to escape after committing the crime in broad daylight.
Police said that the terrorists were riding a motorcycle when they opened fire and killed Constable Muhammad Afzal on the spot.
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The ill-fated policeman was on his way to office early in the morning when the assailants attacked him. The body of the slain constable was shifted to the Civil Hospital Quetta for autopsy.
A large number of policemen and senior district officials reached the spot.
This incident came a day after a policeman guarding a polio team was killed in a firing incident in the Eastern Bypass area of Quetta.
A senior police officer told The Express Tribune that the attacks seemed to be a targeted one.
He declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The funeral prayer of the slain cop was offered at the Quetta Police Lines.
Senior police officials and other high ups attended the last rites.
Later, the coffin was sent to the ancestral graveyard for burial.
In a separate incident, a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) official was gunned down in Bannu.
Police said that Inamullah was targeted in the Azad Mandi area within the remits of Cantonment police station and the attackers escaped unhurt.
On Tuesday, two policemen were martyred and a terrorist was also killed in the same Bannu district.
Police said that terrorists attacked a police party during an anti-polio vaccination campaign but the attack was thwarted and the terrorist entered a nearby house.
Two policemen chased him and both were shot. Later, the terrorist was also killed in the hours-long operation.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2024.
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