Police targeted with hand grenades, rockets in KP

Police station raided in Malazai, Police wagon attacked in Khazana.

PESHAWAR: A police station was raided in the early hours of the morning in Malazai, and a police wagon was attacked in the Khazana district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Express News reported on Monday.

Unidentified people attacked the Malazai Police Station with hand grenades and rockets at 2am on Monday, in Malazai village of Tank district in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A rocket landed on a house next to the police station, injuring one woman. Two houses were also damaged in the raid.

At 8am on Monday, a police wagon was attacked with a remote control bomb in Khazana in the outskirts of Peshawar. Two police officials, Samil Ullah and Fayaz were injured in the attack and the police wagon was destroyed.

After the raid, a curfew had been imposed in Khazana for an indefinite period of time.