Three law-enforcers and two militants were killed and five people injured in an attack on the security forces in Qadirabad near here early Sunday.
Dozens of armed militants attacked a joint post of the police and the Frontier Constabulary in a government school on the Indus Highway, close to the troubled Darra Adamkhel area, with rockets and other sophisticated weapons at 1:00 am.
Two FC men, Hafizullah and Ihsanullah of Timergara, and a police head constable, Diyar Akbar of Swabi, were killed in the attack while a junior commissioned officer Abdul Ghafoor, head constable Ahmad Hassan and constables, Noor Ali, Afzal Shah and Mohammad Rahman sustained serious injuries. The injured are being treated at the Lady Reading Hospital. Two assailants were also said to have been killed in the retaliatory fire by the law-enforcers. The martyred law-enforcers were laid to rest in their hometowns on Sunday as security checkposts in Matani, Shiekhan and Badaber were further strengthened by deploying more force.
A security post was attacked by the militants in Kishan Garh near Matani a few days back, leaving a junior commissioned officer dead and another injured. Several policemen and FC personnel have been killed in Matani and adjacent areas, close to Darra Adamkhel, in attacks by the militants during the past few months.
Flawed security arrangements at the FC and police posts in areas close to Darra Adamkhel and Khyber Agency have put the life of dozens of law-enforcers at risk. The armed militants have frequently attacked the police and the FC posts in these areas, but neither the federal nor the provincial government has taken adequate measures to restrict the movement of terrorists and to avert more deaths of the law-enforcers. Normally 20 to 25 policemen and FC personnel perform duty at a security post. Only a few perform duty at night because the rest have to sleep.