[Dawn] Three people, including a policeman, were killed and three coppers received bullet injuries in an encounter at Shagai Road in the limits of cantonment circle here on Friday evening.An official of Regi cop shoppe said that police were on routine patrolling on Shagai Road when gunnies in car opened fire on them. He said that as a result of the attack one police constable identified as Rafaqat, a resident of Badbher, was killed while three of his colleagues, including Khalid Hameed, Qazafi and Ijaz, sustained injuries.
The official said that in retaliatory fire two attackers were also killed in their car. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
their identity could not be established so far.
The attackers also hurled hand grenades at police, he said and added that personnel of bomb disposal unit had been called to defuse in case there was any explosive in the vehicle.
The injured were shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital.
IED DEFUSED: Police on Friday recovered an improvised bomb outside the residence of a police official in Bana Mari in 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.
A police official said that the IED was planted outside the residence of traffic police inspector Rabnawaz, but he had timely informed the police about presence of a suspected thing. "We called personnel of bomb disposal unit and they defused the device," he said. Bana Mari police have registered the case.
SURVIVES ATTACK: In Swabi, Awami National Party candidates Mr Rehmanullah and his son Ameer Rehman survived attempt on life while a party worker was injured in a grenade attack on them on Friday.
Mr Rehmanullah is contesting election from NA-12, Swabi-1 and Mr Ameer from PK-31, Swabi-1 on the ANP tickets.
Mr Rehmanullah, who is also ANP's district president, told Dawn that they were going to the party election camp in Sheikh Jana when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades on them at Shewa graveyard. "One grenade went
kaboom!, but we survived," he said. However,
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a party worker Shamal Khan was injured.