KHYBER
Three police personnel martyred and eleven others sustained injuries when two suicide bombers exploded themselves at main gate of tehsil compound of subdivision Bara district Khyber on Thursday.
It is to be mentioned here that police station, Bara is also located inside the tehsil building.
The police official said that due to heavy intensity of blasts, a portion of the building collapsed.
Soon after the incident, reinforcement of the security agencies and Rescue 1122 officials rushed to the spot, cordoned off the area and started rescue operation in the building.
According to the District Emergency Officer, Rescue 1122 Syed Shoab Mansoor said that three police officials were killed in the suicide blasts while eleven others including police officials and civilians got injured who were shifted to Hayatabad Medical Complex and other nearest health centers for medical treatment.
The deceased were identified as Tayyab Afridi, Sher Bahadar and Anwar Shah.
Injured were including Muhammad Hanif, Bakht Nawaz, Muhammad Jamil, Shamshad, Zubair, Abdul Hadi, Gul Zeb, Muhammad Nawaz, Anwar Khan, Muhammad Arshad and one unknown.
As per police official body parts of two suiciders were also recovered from the site of the explosions.
People from different walks of life condemned the suicide attack in Bara and expressed their deep sorrow and grief over the lost of police soldiers.
