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An explosion in the Ali Masjid neighbourhood in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)’s tehsil Jamrud, and Additional Station House Officer (SHO) Adnan Afridi embraced death in the explosion.
blast in Khyber near mosque: Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) blocked off the area while sent rescue crews to the scene.
According to the police, the LEAs received the report regarding the presence of suspicious individuals in the vicinity.
When the Additional SHO called the suspicious person, he went into a mosque and blew himself up, according to the police. The suicide blast happened inside the mosque in the Gharuba district.
When the explosion occurred, the police officer who died was both pursuing the bomber and present inside the mosque.
Last week, three police officers and a civilian accepted death shortly after two suicide bombers detonated in Bara. Additionally, two policemen were killed in a shootout at their post in Peshawar.
Terrorists in police garb, according to the police, drove a car to the Tehsil Offices Compound in Bara, in the Khyber district of KP, and cut a barbed-wire fence to gain entry.
Two suicide attackers tried to enter the building through its main gate while the intruders started shooting at the on-duty police officers.