Pakistan: Mosque bombing; police officer dead

A bomb explosion in a mosque that was still being built in the Ali Masjid neighborhood of the Khyber district on Tuesday claimed the lives of two Station House Officers (SHOs) and injured a number of others.

Khyber is a district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Peshawar Division.
Initial investigations indicate that the incident was likely a suicide bombing.

According to the police, the deceased extra SHO was identified as Adnan Afridi.
It was discovered that the district Khyber Police had carried out an intelligence-based operation in response to information that two terrorists were present in the mosque in Jamrud that was still under construction. While the other terrorist escaped the explosion scene, one of the terrorists detonated himself.

However, ARY News reports that the security forces were able to capture him.

The number of bomb explosions in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is increasing. The province is always under attack by terrorists.

The province experienced 665 terror assaults between June 18, 2022, and June 18, 2023, including 15 suicide bombs.
According to the list of “Motive Wise Terrorism Incidents” released by the provincial police, there have been 140 terror operations, including eight suicide bombings, 37 IED and three hand grenade blasts, five rocket assaults, and 85 fire events, in the North Waziristan tribal district alone.

The Dera Ismail Khan district was the scene of 81 terror assaults, which is on file with Dawn. These included 70 shooting events, seven IED blasts, two grenade explosions, one suicide attack, and one rocket attack.

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