The funeral prayer of constables Ajmal Khan and Siraj Khan, who embraced martyred in a terrorist attack on a police van here in the jurisdiction of Machni Gate Police Station, was offered at the Malik Saad Shaheed Police Line.
SSP Operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi, SSP Investigation Sajjad Ahmed Sahibzada, SP Warsak Division, SP City, and SP Headquarters, along with relatives of the martyrs and police officers attended the funeral prayer. On this occasion, the police officers laid wreaths on the coffins of the martyrs while a police squad presented a salute to the martyrs.
SSP Operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi, and SSP Operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi expressed condolences to the bereaved families. It is worth mentioned here that at least two people were killed while one suffered injuries in a blast near the Board Bazaar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar early Sunday morning.
Rescue 1122 Spokesperson Bilal Faizi confirmed the death toll and injuries .He said the bodies and wounded were moved to the Khyber Teaching Hospital and the blast site had been cordoned off. Speaking to the media, Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Kashif Aftab Abbasi said teams of the Counter Terrorism Department and other law enforcement agencies had arrived at the site and were collecting evidence.
“We have found an almost mutilated body and a damaged motorcycle here,” he said. “The blast occurred during the transportation of four to five kilogrammes of explosives,” the SSP told Geo News in an interview later. He elaborated that the explosives were being transported on a motorcycle. “Two people involved in the transportation were killed while one was injured,” Abbasi said, adding that the identities of the suspects were being determined.
