A bomb explosion took place near a police van, injuring two cops near Kolachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday.
The bomb was remotely detonated.
Other sources reported that seven poilcemen were wounded in the blast on Rohri road and that the Station House Officer of Kolachi police station was among those injured in the blast.
The explosion comes as the country celebrates Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal, and strict security measures have been put in place across the country.
Mobile phone services were suspended in most parts of the country in order to avoid any untoward incident.
Further details of the incident were not available till the filing of this report.
Dera Ismail Khan sits close to the restive South Waziristan tribal region bifurcated by the semi-autonomous Frontier Region Jandola.
Earlier, four bodies of unidentified people were recovered from Aman Gar area near Kabul River, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district.
A policeman of Nowshera Police confirmed that the four people were shot dead and their bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for identification.
In a separate incident in Swabi District, an official of the intelligence agencies, Amjad was shot dead in Swabi bus stand area where he was on duty.
source: dawn.com
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