Bomb squad veteran Hukam Khan, aged in his late 50s, successfully defused one device but was killed when a second one exploded as he tried to make it safe. Three police officers were wounded in the blast.
“The bomb planted at the roadside exploded when Khan was trying to defuse it,” Khurshid Khan, a senior police officer in Peshawar told AFP.
An intelligence official said Khan defused the first improvised explosive device (IED) but was killed while attempting to defuse the second.
Khan was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital after the explosion took place, while the police have surrounded the area.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday told the UN General Assembly that the country has lost more than 7,000 Pakistani soldiers and policemen, and 37,000 civilians as a result of terrorism in the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Earlier on September 24, a bomb planted on Frontier Road was defused by the BDS police in Sheikhan village.
The police was informed about the bomb, following which they cordoned off the area, diverting traffic from the road.
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