Two traffic officials gunned down in Lakki Marwat

Assailants took away with the officers’ official weapons

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Two traffic policemen were shot dead in an ambush on Tuesday on the Ghazni Khel–Long Khel road, near Gul Baz Dehqan, in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to local police.

The assailants, who remain unidentified, opened fire on the officers as they were travelling on a motorcycle. The attackers also snatched the officers’ official weapons before fleeing the scene.

The deceased officers were identified as Israel and Sanaullah, who were on their way from their native village Long Khel to Taja Zai Adda for duty when the incident occurred.

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Just days earlier, on Sunday, the leader of a local peace committee, Ghulam Dastagir, also known as Fauji, and his two companions were shot dead in a targeted attack in the Kara Wanda area of Lakki Marwat, police confirmed.

Dastagir, who headed the Shahab Khel peace committee, was travelling to Qabol Khel when unidentified gunmen ambushed his vehicle. His companions, Saleem Khan and Salahuddin, were also killed at the scene.

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In April, two deadly assaults targeted peace committee groups in Lakki Marwat and South Waziristan, including a bomb blast that killed at least seven people in a peace committee office.

Last month, Constable Khushdil Khan, a resident of Wanda Fateh Khan, was kidnapped from his home and later brutally murdered by unidentified armed men. He was abducted in front of his children during a late-night raid, and his body was later recovered from a deserted area.