PESHAWAR: A policeman on polio duty martyred while three terrorists were killed in retaliatory firing by the Frontier Corps(FC) in Upper Orakzai area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
SDPO, Upper Orakzai, Muhammad Rahim said the incident took place in Dabori Badan area of Upper Orakzai where terrorists attacked an anti-polio team, and martyred a policeman, Sayyed Hameed.
Another cop, Muzammil sustained bullet injury in the attack. The injured cop was shifted to DHQ Hospital Orakzai by the police.
However, the jawans of Frontier Corps swiftly responded to the attack and eliminated three of the terrorists and arrested another in injured condition.
The large contingents of police and security forces reached the area soon after the incident and started a search operation in the area.
The bodies of the terrorists and injured were also shifted to hospital for identification and further legal action.
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Earlier, At least five people were killed and two other were injured firing incident in Pangur district of Balochistan.
Provincial Government spokesman Shahid Rind confirmed the incident and said that local people were shot dead who assigned on security duty of dam in Paroom tehsil of Panjgur.
According to the spokesman of the provincial government, five people were killed and two were injured as a result of firing by unknown armed men.
