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Officer among three FC men gunned down in Peshawar
[DAWN] Three Frontier Constabulary personnel, including a senior officer, were bumped off in a assassination here on Wednesday. The officer, accompanied by his driver and guard, was going to his office when they were attacked.The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain grabbed credit for the attack. A Faqirabad police official identified the officer as Ameer Badhsah, who worked as district officer at the FC headquarters on Sunehri Masjid Road within the jurisdiction of the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. cantonment. The official said assailants opened fire when the officer’s vehicle came near Patang Chowk on Ring Road, leaving the FC officer, his driver and guard seriously maimed. He said the maimed were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital where they died. The official identified the driver as Gul Rasool and the guard as Gul Rehman. Senior Superintendent of Police (operations) Abbas Majeed Marwat told Dawn that Mr Badshah was going to his office located in the Latif Abad locality of the city. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-27 |
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