Special force constable, woman gunned down
Two others including six-year-old child injured in attack
PESHAWAR:
A special force constable of Badhaber police station and a woman were killed when unidentified miscreants ambushed a vehicle on Telaband Road on Monday morning.
Police said Ijaz Ahmad, a special police force constable and member of Telaband Aman Lashker, was on his way to the police station when gunmen on a motorcycle sprayed bullets at his car, killing him on the spot along with a woman identified as Zarmeena. Another woman, Eid Bibi, and a six-year-old child, Shahzad, were also injured.
“It was raining and these women and the child were waiting for public transport by a roadside so he also took them in his motor car to Kohat Road,” an official of Badhaber police station told The Express Tribune, adding the injured were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) where their condition was said to be stable.
The police official said Ijaz Ahmad had no feud with any one and the attackers were militants who targeted him because of his police service as well as his connection with the local aman lashker raised in the year 2008 by then deputy speaker Advocate Khushdil Khan, who also provided locals with AK-47s to guard their own villages against militants frequently kidnapping people for ransom.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.
A special force constable of Badhaber police station and a woman were killed when unidentified miscreants ambushed a vehicle on Telaband Road on Monday morning.
Police said Ijaz Ahmad, a special police force constable and member of Telaband Aman Lashker, was on his way to the police station when gunmen on a motorcycle sprayed bullets at his car, killing him on the spot along with a woman identified as Zarmeena. Another woman, Eid Bibi, and a six-year-old child, Shahzad, were also injured.
“It was raining and these women and the child were waiting for public transport by a roadside so he also took them in his motor car to Kohat Road,” an official of Badhaber police station told The Express Tribune, adding the injured were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) where their condition was said to be stable.
The police official said Ijaz Ahmad had no feud with any one and the attackers were militants who targeted him because of his police service as well as his connection with the local aman lashker raised in the year 2008 by then deputy speaker Advocate Khushdil Khan, who also provided locals with AK-47s to guard their own villages against militants frequently kidnapping people for ransom.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.