Two traffic policemen were shot in a bak team on Tuesday at Ghazni Khel-Long Khel Road, near the Yellow Baz Dehqan, in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to local police.
The assailants who remain unidentified opened fire against the officers as they traveled on a motorcycle. The attackers also caught the officers’ official weapons before flinging from the stage.
The deceased officers were identified as Israel and Sanaullah, who were on their way from their original village of Long Khel to Taja Zai Adda for service when the incident took place.
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Just days earlier, on Sunday, the leader of a local peace committee, Ghulam Dastagir, also known as Fauji, and his two companions were shot in a targeted attack in the Kara Wanda area of Lakki Marwat, police confirmed.
Dastagir, who led the Shahab Khel Peace Committee, traveled to Qabol Khel when unidentified guns threw his vehicle. His companions, Saleem Khan and Salahuddin, were also killed on stage.
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In April, two deadly assaults targeted peace committee groups in Lakki Marwat and South Waziristan, including a bomb explosion that killed at least seven people in a peace committee office.
Last month, Constable Khushdil Khan, a resident of Wanda Fateh Khan, was kidnapped from her home and later brutally murdered by unidentified armed men. He was abducted in front of his children during a late evening and his body was later regained from a deserted area.
