5 people were killed in a bomb attack on the police station in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Police official Mohammad Adnan said that the bomb blast happened near the police van on patrol in Dera Ismail Khan city. Rescue official Aizaz Mahmood said that 5 people were killed and 21 others were injured.
District Emergency Officer Rescue 1122 Dera Ismail Khan Owais Babar said that the medical teams of Rescue 1122 reached the spot and performed rescue operations.
In the ongoing statement, 5 people were killed in the explosion near the tank base while 21 people, including a traffic police officer and a woman, were injured.
He said that all the injured were shifted to the hospital under the supervision of Emergency Officer Naumanullah Marwat, 6 ambulances of Rescue 1122 and 20 personnel participated in the operation.
Pakistan has seen an increase in terrorist activities in recent months, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, since the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November last year.
On October 31, a policeman was martyred by unknown militants firing on a police camp in Dera Ismail Khan, on the same day two soldiers were martyred in an IED blast in South Waziristan district.
In July this year, 12 Pakistan Army personnel were martyred during two separate operations in Sui and Zhob districts of Balochistan.
This was the worst incident to happen to the security forces in a day this year, earlier in February 2022, 10 personnel were martyred in firing in Kech district of Balochistan.
In September, data compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies said the number of terrorist attacks in August was the highest in nine years.
The report said that 99 terrorist attacks were the highest in a single month since November 2014 across the country.
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2024-09-20 20:50:24
