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There has been a sharp rise in terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa targeting police officials since the start of this year, with 120 policemen losing their lives in at least 77 attacks, mostly claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
At least 120 policemen have been killed and 333 were injured in various attacks this year from January to April, Mashriq Peshawar reported.
Most of the attacks were claimed by TTP.
TTP has been targeting security officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa particularly.
Earlier, two policemen were killed and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat.
In Tank’s Kot Azam area, terrorists had opened fire at a police van deployed for the security of census staff while it was returning from a village. As a result, constable Khan Nawab was killed, while police constables Shah Nawaz and Aslam Khan, Levies official Bismillah, Frontier Constabulary official Abdullah and driver Eid Jan were injured.
Same day in another militant attack on a census team, a Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) police constable was killed in Pirwala area of the Lakki Marwat district when motorcyclists opened fire at the census team.
In January, a blast in Peshawar mosque inside a police compound claimed the lives of more than 60 people. The TTP claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest blasts in the city. Last month a police station in Peshawar was also targeted, resulting in three deaths. Meanwhile, the day after the deadly Peshawar attack, Punjab police thwarted an attack on a police station in Mianwali.
