LAKKI MARWAT -UNS : A “key terrorist” was killed and a police constable martyred in the early hours of Sunday when gunmen attacked a police checkpost in the Shahbaz Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat District, a local police official said.
“The terrorists attacked the police [checkpost] with heavy and automatic weapons and tried to break in,” Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Shahid Hameed told Dawn.com, adding that RPG-7s, grenades and other “advanced weapons” were used.
“The attack was thwarted by the timely action of the police,” the spokesperson said.
Hameed identified the martyred policeman as of Constable Tehsinullah of the Rapid Response Force.
