Two people were martyred while 14 others, including two policemen, were injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast near a police van in Rustam Bazaar in South Waziristan on Thursday. Following the blast, an emergency was declared at the district headquarters hospital, Wana, the main town in South Waziristan. 

On Wednesday, two people, including a police constable, were injured when the South Upper Waziristan deputy commissioner’s (DC) vehicle came under attack near the Habib Kot Adana area of the district’s Ladha tehsil. Police spokesperson Shoaib Mehsood said that according to the initial information, unknown assailants attacked DC Asmatullah Wazir’s vehicle when he was returning from Ladha to Maken area.

He said the DC, additional DC (ADC) for planning and development, a police constable and an assistant to the ADC for finance and planning were onboard the vehicle. The police spokesperson said that DC Wazir and the ADC remained safe in the attack, but the assistant for the finance and planning ADC and Constable Gul Nawaz were injured. He said that the injured were taken to the district headquarters hospital for medical treatment.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)