Roadside bomb injures three security officials

Bomb disposal said at least two kilograms of explosives was used.

PESHAWAR: Three police men were injured when a police foot patrol came under attack from a roadside bomb on the Shah Aalam Road within the jurisdiction of Daudzai police station on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday night.

Three policemen Pervaz, Imran and Naseer had been deployed at a security check post in Sakhar Pura village near Satellite Hospital. They were returning to the police station when a bomb planted by the roadside exploded, leaving them injured.

They were rushed to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH).

SP Rural Shafiullah told The Express Tribune that three police had been injured. “Two of them belong to regular police while the third, Imran, is a Community Police constable,” he said, adding that one of the injured was serious.

A large number of police officers reached the area and started a search operation. They arrested several suspicious people who had been taken to the police station for questioning.

“Around 2 kilogram high explosive has been used in the attack and it was a remote controlled bomb,” an official of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) Hukam Khan, told the Express Tribune, adding that it was a home made device.

It is worth mentioning here that 19 people had been killed in the same area when a powerful explosion inside a Civil Secretariat bus three weeks ago.