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India-Pakistan
Policeman killed in Peshawar IED blast
2016-04-09
[DAWN] A policeman was killed and two others, including a passerby, sustained injuries when an improvised bomb (IED) went off in the limits of Paharipura cop shoppe on Thursday.

An official of the cop shoppe told Dawn that the incident took place at around 9:30am when an IED targeting a police party went off in Budhu Samar Bagh locality. He said that a policeman identified as Syed Khan, a resident of Mustajab Ghari village of Mathra locality of 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.
, was killed, while another policeman and a passerby sustained injuries in the blast.

The official identified the injured policeman as Niamatullah, a resident of Shabqadar, and the passerby as Ihsanullah, a resident of Pakha Ghulam village.

He said that the coppers were providing security to a polio
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team in the area.

Rescue 1122 took the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital where Syed Khan departed this vale of tears, while two injured were being treated for wounds.

ASP Waseem Riaz Khan told Dawn that it was a roadside IED, which was used to target the coppers. He said that the device was placed beneath a tree and apparently it went off when the coppers were standing in its shade. He said that it was a time device weighing around one kilogramme.
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