They said that leaders of the peace bodies narrowly beat feet when the bomber hurled a hand grenade and fired at them. The bomber was killed in retaliatory firing by the volunteers of peace bodies, they added.
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"As we were coming out of the hujra, the cut-thoat entered through a window. He hurled a hand grenade and also fired at us with a pistol. People remained unhurt as there was enough distance between the attacker and us," Mr Rehman said.
He said that his bodyguards opened firing on the bomber in retaliation. "He fell down and tried to detonate his boom jacket but failed to do so," he added. Mr Rehman said that the attacker was struck down in his prime as he received several bullet injuries.
Dilawar Khan, the head of other peace body, said that the bomber was a young man of about 22 with a light beard. He tried to kill the volunteers of the peace bodies but failed to detonate his suicide jacket, he added.
"We had been in Bazidkhel village for the last three days to resolve a dispute," he said.
Mr Khan said that Taliban and Khyber Agency
-based cut-thoat organization Lashkar-i-Islam were responsible for the attack. He said that two other accomplices of the bomber beat feet on a cycle of violence. "Our volunteers are trying to capture them," he added.He said that there was no prior information about the attack otherwise volunteers would have captured the other two cut-thoats. "We will continue our efforts against beturbanned goons at any cost. The snuffies can`t scare us with such cowardly acts," he said.An official of the Bomb Disposal Unit said that the boom jacket tied around the bomber`s chest weighed about 10 kilograms. The boom jacket was defused successfully, he said.
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a policeman was killed and his two colleagues, including a lady constable, sustained bullet injuries during a raid at the residence of alleged proclaimed offenders at Ghazali Garhi in the limits of Regi cop shoppe on Thursday.
An official of the cop shoppe said that they raided the residence of proclaimed offenders Abdullah, Mumtaz, Mujahid, Nek Mohammad and Khan Mohammad but they opened firing on the raiding party.
A policeman and an accused identified as Amal Khan were killed and two police constables, Khan Alam and Ms Safia, were maimed in the encounter, he added.
The injured constables were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.
The funeral prayers for the killed policeman were offered at Malik Saad Police Lines.