NOWSHERA: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police was martyred and two other cops sustained injuries after unidentified men opened fire on them in the Nowshera district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
According to police, the cops were standing at a check-post within the remits of Jalozai police station, where unidentified men opened fire on them.
“An ASI posted at the police station succumbed to his injuries while two other cops received bullet wounds,” they said and added that the body and injured were shifted to a hospital for medico-legal formality and treatment.
The police have launched a search operation in the area to nab the suspects.
Separately, a total of 13 terrorists were killed, while seven soldiers embraced martyrdom as security forces repulsed terrorist attacks on their camps in Balochistan’s Nushki and Panjgur, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday.
The military’s media wing said the troops successfully repulsed terrorist attacks in Panjgur and Nushki areas last night, after which they carried out clearance operations to hunt down terrorists hiding there.
