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Police officer, 3 policemen killed in bomb attack: police

By IRNA

Peshawar : A senior police officer and three other policemen were killed in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s northwest frontier province on Friday, police chief said.

A police van, carrying Deputy Superintendent Officer Javed Iqbal Mastikhel and other policemen, came under at the town of Lakky Marwat, when he was heading to police headquarters from his residence, deputy inspector general police Hamza Masood said.

Masood said that Mastikhel and three other policemen men were killed and two others injured.

He said the attack was carried out through a remote control device which destroyed the vehicle.

No group claimed responsibility of the attack.

But such attacks are blamed on suspected militants.

Witnesses said that the police surrounded the area soon after the blast and also stopped journalists from visiting the blast site.