Two individuals, including a police officer, were injured when the attached vehicle of the Waziristan commissioner of southern Wazirist (DC) was attacked near the Habib Kot Adana area of the district’s Tehsil Ladha on Wednesday.
The South Police spokesman for Waziristan, Shoaib Mehsood, said Dawn.com: “According to the initial information, the unknown assailants attacked the DC Asmatullah Wazir vehicle when traveling to the Maken area from Ladha.”
He said that the DC, additional DC (ADC) for planning and development, a police officer and an ADC assistant for finance and planning were aboard the vehicle.
Police spokesman said DC Wazir and ADC remained safe in the attack, but the assistant of Finance and Planning of ADC and agent Gul Nawaz were injured.
He said the injured were taken to the Hospital of the District headquarters to receive medical treatment.
The spokesman said that a police team was sent to the area and was doing a search to locate the armed assailants.
Pakistan has witnessed an increase in terrorist activities during the past year, especially in KP and Baluchistan, after the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) outlaw (TTP) ended its high fire with the government in November 2022.
Last week, armed men kidnapped a truck driver and two workers while setting fire to their vehicle in the Ladha area.
A police spokesman said that unidentified assailants intercepted a truck near Habib Kot, a Ladha suburb.
Last Sunday, two militant commanders and the brother of a tribal old man were killed in a clash between the Banned Tehreek-i-Taliban (Gruz Bahadar Group) and relatives of Elder Malik Ashiq Noor in the Dana de Birmal Tehsil area of the southern district of Waziristan Bajo.
