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2023-01-20 India-Pakistan
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Terrorist attack on police post leaves three dead in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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[Dawn] Three persons including two coppers and a cook were killed when holy warriors attacked a checkpost in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber tribal district on Thursday evening.
Khyber DPO Mohammad Imran told journalists that holy warriors conducted a three-pronged coordinated attack at Takhtabeg checkpost on the main Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
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He said that the attackers, including a jacket wallah, initially hurled hand grenades at the police post alongside resorting to indiscriminate firing which resulted in the killing of a policeman on the spot while critically injuring two others including a cook.
"One of the injured policeman departed this vale of tears while being shifted to hospital while the cook died at Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar later," said the DPO. The two martyred coppers included Younas Khan and Manzoor Shah while the cook was identified as Rafiq, all hailing from Jamrud.
He said that police courageously intercepted the suicide bomber at the entry point of the checkpost as he was trying to enter and blew himself inside the checkpost. He was killed when his explosive-laden jacket was blown up with police firing.
"No coppers was either killed or injured in the suicide explosion," said the DPO. He added that police collected body parts of the suicide bomber for forensic investigation.
“That’s a left ear...and over there is the matching right one....but why does he have two left feet? Hmmm... I shall have to write a monograph for the Lancet.”
“B - but is he dead, Dr. Quincy?”
“Oh! Yes, of course he’s dead, Jim. When they’re in pieces like this, the smart bet is that they’re dead. Give me a blank form D17933/KPTTP from the drawer over there — you can take that to the police sergeant to make it official.” He said that a part of the checkpost was also damaged due to explosion of suicide jacket and grenade attack. He said that an extensive search operation was immediately launched in the surrounding localities jointly by police and counter-terrorism department personnel to trace and arrest the attackers, who managed to escape.
Nobody grabbed credit of the attack till filing of the report while police officials said that they recently received threats from krazed killer groups and were on high alert.
Sources told Dawn that the attack was carried out at a time when there was rush on the main road. They said that traffic was immediately suspended while the motorists and passersby ran for cover in the surrounding localities. No civilian was, however, affected in the attack.
In Lakki Marwat, a search operation was launched after a clash between police and holy warriors in a forest along the Kurrum River in Ihsanpur area on Thursday.
Officials said that the clash took place when a large police contingent raided the hideout of holy warriors in the dense forest locally called Darga.
"Terrorists fired at police with automatic weapons. They also used rocket launchers and other heavy weapons," they said. They added that the forest spreading over a vast area along the river was used by the holy warriors as safe haven.
Ihsanpur area is located on plain and saline lands between Gambila and Kurrum rivers. A bridge over the Gambila River links the area with Lakki Marwat city.
The trans-Kurrum river locality known as Kurrum Par area borders Karak and Mianwali districts where several terrorist attacks on police force had taken place in the recent months. Six coppers had embraced martyrdom when holy warriors attacked them in the Kurrm Par area two months ago.
Officials said that coppers were dispatched to the area on credible information about the presence of holy warriors in in the forest. They said that a police van was damaged in the attack by terrorists. "Policemen equipped with modern and heavy weapons also took positions and returned the fire bravely," they added.
They said that the coppers engaged the holy warriors until an additional contingent reached there to assist them. They said that security forces and commandos of Quick Response Force (QRF) also reached Ihsanpur area and took part in the operation against terrorists.
Officials said that the coppers and soldiers remained unhurt in the fierce shootout. "The law enforcers have besieged the forest and a search operation is under way," they said.
Local authorities have reported that bully boyz attacked a police outpost using in northeastern Pakistain, killing three security personnel on Thursday evening.
The terror attack took place in the Khyber district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistain late yesterday evening. Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP), also known as the Pak Taliban, claimed the responsibility for the deadly attack, resulting in the death of three security force members. 
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