PESHAWAR: A Frontier Constabulary (FC) official was martyred on Monday while eight others, including two civilians, were injured in a blast near Prime Hospital Complex on Peshawar’s Warsak Road, police said.
Warsak Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohammad Arshad Khan confirmed that a vehicle of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa FC’s Mohmand Rifles regiment was targeted in the attack at around 10:30am.
The vehicle was headed towards Peshawar from Machni when the blast occurred, he said.
SP Khan said that one FC official was martyred as a result while six FC officials and two civilians were also injured.
Stating that there was “no prior threat”, he said the blast was carried out using an improvised explosive device (IED).
The SP said that further investigation was under way and that a report by the Bomb Disposal Unit would further clarify the nature of the blast.
The incident comes a day after interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti downplayed the increase in militancy in the country, saying there was no need for alarm as “a little surge [in terrorism] is not so big as to make us panic”.
His statement came amid reports of almost daily skirmishes between the security forces and terrorists — the most recent being the infiltration attempt in Chitral in which over a dozen attackers were killed while several troops embraced martyrdom.
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