ISLAMABAD: A police convoy in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city escaped a bomb blast on Sunday morning while patrolling vicinities near Khyber tribal district, said an official statement while adding there had been no casualties or injuries.
The police said Nasir Khan, in charge of a checkpoint of the city’s Badaber police station, was on driving in the area when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated close to his vehicle.
“As a result of the IED blast, Nasir Khan’s vehicle was partially damaged, though there were no injuries or casualties,” the police statement said.
It informed that “important evidence” had been collected from the crime scene, adding that about one kilogram of explosives were used in the blast.
Fatal attacks on police and security officials have intensified in different parts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces since the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended a ceasefire with the government last November.
The group subsequently ordered its militants to carry out countrywide attacks.
A police checkpoint in Charsadda district also came under attack on Saturday evening which claimed the lives of two officers and wounded one other.
The TTP has waged an insurgency in Pakistan over the last 15 years, seeking stricter implementation of Islamic laws in the country, release of its fighters in government custody, and a reduction of Pakistan’s military presence in the country’s tribal regions.
