Unidentified assailants on a motorcycle shot dead a Police officer, belonging to the Frontier Reserve Police, while returning home after security duty with polio vaccination workers in the Duadzai area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on August 1, reports Dawn.
Separately, a soldier was killed and another one injured in a militant attack on a check-post in the Zangara area of South Waziristan District on August 1, reports Dawn.
Meanwhile, one Policeman, Naib Subedar Raja Tahir, sustained injuries when a Police van on polio duty hit a landmine on Badar Bridge in Ladha sub-division of South Waziristan District on August 1, reports Dawn. South Waziristan District Police Officer (DPO) Shaukat Ali said that the police mobile was patrolling the area when the blast took place. No group has claimed responsibility for these attacks so far.