5 cops among 8 injured in attacks on police vehicle, ambulance in KP's Bajaur

PESHAWAR: Five policemen were among eight people injured after unidentified assailants attacked a police vehicle and a Rescue 1122 ambulance in two separate areas of Khar tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Friday night.

Police and Rescue 1122 officials said on Saturday that the first incident occurred in the Lowi Sam area when assailants opened fire on a police mobile carrying policemen to the nearby Miagano post.

They said five policemen in the vehicle were injured in the attack, adding that the attackers managed to flee.

“The overnight attack on the police vehicle in the Lowi Sam area, considered among the peaceful areas of Khar tehsil, has left five policemen non-fatally wounded,” a spokesperson for the district police said.

The official said that after the incident, a team from the Lowi Sam police station immediately rushed to the scene and launched search efforts for the attackers.

The police spokesperson added that a Rescue 1122 ambulance was attacked by unknown assailants in Khar’s Rashakai area when it was en route to the Lowi Sam area to take the wounded cops to the Khar District Headquarters Hospital for treatment.

The official stated that the attack on the Rescue 1122 ambulance, which occurred about 20 minutes after the Lowi Sam incident, left three people wounded, including the vehicle driver and two residents.

A contingent of police personnel led by senior officials from the Police Lines quickly reached the locality and started a search operation against those involved in the ambush after cordoning off the site, he added.

No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, which spread fear in the said localities.

PTI MPA Dr Hamidur Rehman and Awami National Party (ANP) MPA Muhammad Nisar Baz Khan, among others, strongly condemned the attacks and termed them unacceptable.

In social media posts, both lawmakers expressed concern over the incidents and prayed for the early recovery of all the injured.

KP has seen a rise in terrorist attacks in the past year. According to the Annual Security Report 2025 from the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), KP recorded a significant surge in violence last year as “fatalities rose from 1,620 in 2024 to 2,331 in 2025”.

On Thursday night, terrorists blew up an abandoned police post in Lowi Mamund tehsil of Bajaur.

On Tuesday night, a mortar shell fired from the Afghan side hit a house in Lowi Mamund. However, no casualties were reported.

Last week, a policeman was injured after unidentified armed men attacked a police post in the War Mamund tehsil.