PAKISTAN: Two killed, seven wounded in attack on Peshawar police van

Record ID: 352450

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Two killed, seven wounded in attack on Peshawar police van
  • Date: 20th November 2009
  • Summary: (NIGHT SHOTS) PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 19, 2009) (REUTERS) DESTROYED POLICE VAN POLICEMEN AND RESCUE WORKERS LOOKING AT DESTROYED VAN POLICE OFFICIAL PICKING UP PAPER FILE AND PLACING IT ONTO DASH BOARD DAMAGE AT VAN DESTROYED DOOR OF VAN POLICE, RESCUE AND ONLOOKERS GATHERED NEAR VAN BLOOD STAINED INTERIOR OF VAN BLOOD STAINED SHEET/ SPARE TYRES POLICE CAPS
  • Embargoed: 5th December 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA25VS35H9ELRRDTD2HOR2OZD11
  • Story Text: Two policemen killed after a bomb attack on a police van in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar.
    Two policemen were killed and seven wounded, some critically, after a bomb attack on a police van in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Thursday (November 19), police and hospital officials said.
    The police van was hit with a remote controlled bomb at about midnight (1900 GMT), while on routine patrol.
    "We were on patrol duty. As soon as we took a turn a blast occurred. It was a remote controlled blast. All those who were sitting on one side got injured. Two of us survived. We stood up and started running. We don't know what happened after that," police constable, Arabistan, who survived the blast said.
    The chief executive officer of city's main Lady Reading Hospital, Hameedullah Afridi, confirmed three policemen were amoung the seven people wounded.
    "In this incident two policemen have died. Seven are injured, two of them critically. One is more critical. He has major head injury. The second has chest and vascular injuries," Afridi said.
    Earlier on Thursday morning, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a court building in Peshawar killing 18 people, officials said.
    The city, near the Afghan border, has been targeted several times since the army began an offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan last month and militants stepped up retaliatory attacks.
    The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan on the Afghan border on Oct. 17, aiming to root out militants who escalated their war against the security forces in 2007.
    The militants have responded with intensified attacks in towns and cities. There have been seven suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan this month, five of them in Peshawar, and about 110 people have been killed.
    The United States, weighing options for how to stem an intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan, has welcomed the offensive but is keen to see Pakistan tackle Afghan Taliban factions based in lawless enclaves along the border.
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