Ten cops were martyred while six were injured in a late-night attack on the Chodwan police station in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday, police said. The attack comes three days before the general elections are scheduled to take place on February 8
Regional Police Officer (RPO) Nasir Mehmood confirmed the casualties to Dawn.com.“More than 30 terrorists launched an attack from three directions. There was an exchange of fire for over two-and-a-half hours,” Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur told AFP.
Gandapur told AFP the attackers briefly seized control of the police station during the assault in the early hours of Monday.
Malik Aneesul Hassan, the deputy superintendent of police in Draban, told Reuters that after entering the building, the militants “used hand grenades which caused more casualties to the police”.
In the evening, funeral prayers of the martyred cops were offered at the Dera Ismail Khan Police Lines. Caretaker KP Chief Minister Justice (rtd) Arshad Hussain Shah, Chief Secretary Nadeen Aslam Chaudhry, KP police chief, and other senior civil and military officials attended the funeral. Talking to the media afterward, IG Akhtar paid tribute to the police for fighting terrorists with courage and bravery. He promised that the sacrifices of those who fought for the security of the country would not go in vain..
Source:dawn.com/
