A police inspector was martyred in a suicide blast that occurred in the mosque in the area of Doo Sirka of Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.
According to the 24News HD TV channel, the suicider run fast and hid himself in the empty mosque when he was tried searched by Additional Station House Officer (SHO) Adnam Afridi.
To avoid his arrest, the suicider blasted himself when the Addition SHO reached near to him in the mosque of Jamrud in the Khyber area.
Resultantly, an Additional Station House Officer (SHO) of the police embraced Shahadat. The suicide attacker was killed and the building of the mosque collapsed due to an explosion.
The bomb disposal unit has also been reached there while the dead body of the martyred Additional SHO has been shifted to the hospital.
According to eyewitnesses, the mosque was empty at the time of the explosion while the KP's Inspector General of Police (IGP) Akhtar Hayat Khan confirmed that it was a suicide explosion and Additional SHO was martyred in the incident. He said the explosion took place in a small mosque in Jamrud and security forces and police surrounded the area after the blast.
It is worth mentioning here that two days ago, there was an incident of terrorism in the Bara area of the KP.
Reporter: Jahanzeb Afridi