Constable killed, three policemen abducted in Hangu post attack
DPO Salahuddin Kundi says the attackers took the three personnel towards Khanano Kot in the Samana range after the raid on the Shalmas Pir Ziarat post.
A police constable was killed and three policemen were abducted when armed men attacked the Shalmas Pir Ziarat police post in Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday night, Hangu District Police Officer Salahuddin Kundi said on Monday.
The dead constable was named as Feroz Ali. His funeral prayers were offered with full state honours at Police Lines in Hangu, attended by the DPO and officers and personnel of the police and security forces. The DPO and other officials laid floral wreaths on the coffin and paid tribute to his sacrifice. The body was then taken to his native village, Ibrahimzai, with full state honours.
Kundi said the attackers took the three abducted personnel towards Khanano Kot in the Samana mountain range. A heavy contingent of police and security forces reached the post, where an exchange of fire took place with the attackers. Police later regained control of the post on Shah Almas Pir mountain and launched a pursuit operation, he said.
The post was named in the report as the Shalmas Pir Ziarat police post and as the post on Shah Almas Pir mountain.
The attack is the latest in a run of strikes on police personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. On October 8, Station House Officer Daud Khan and his gunman Farhad were killed when armed men opened fire on a police patrol near the Karak-Kohat boundary. On September 28, three traffic police personnel were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked their vehicle in Tank district.
On September 25, Counter-Terrorism Department constable Muhammad Afaq was killed and three other personnel were injured during an intelligence-based operation against suspected suicide attackers in Peshawar's Garhi Sherdad area. On September 18, a blast followed by an assault at Kohat Police Lines killed 15 police personnel among 23 people, and eight attackers were killed during the clearance operation.
A separate Express Tribune report linked from the same story quoted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's governor as saying that a lack of political ownership had weakened counterterrorism efforts.
How the reports differ
The Express Tribune named the post, the Hangu district police officer and the dead constable, gave the funeral details and placed the attack in a run of recent strikes on police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. thekabultribune.com and OrissaPOST reported the same raid as an attack on a checkpost in Pakistan's Hangu; their headlines did not name the post, the officer or the constable.
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