The police said on Thursday that a cop was martyred and eight others, including policemen, were injured in an explosion in the Bara Bazar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district.
According to the initial police report, the explosion was suspected to be a suicide attack.
The latest attack occurred at the tehsil compound, where police were checking people entering it. Other than that, there is a Bara Police Station, government offices, and a cell of the counter-terrorism department in the tehsil compound.
The police said that the injured have been shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Dogra Khyber Agency. There is still no information about the nature of the blast.
The KP police also suffered an attack last night in which two cops were martyred and two others injured.
