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Pakistan Firing

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Pakistan: Police, student, among four dead in Bannu firing

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Mar 11, 2023, at 10:46 pm

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Four people, including a policeman, died and six others were hurt when unknown assailants opened fire on them near a private school on DI Khan Road in Pakistan on Thursday.

Police told Dawn News the incident occurred in the limits of Saddar police station and added that school students were also among the dead and injured.

“Police and rescue officials rushed to site after the firing incident and shifted the bodies and injured persons to the District Headquarters Hospital,” they maintained.

The deceased were identified as a police constable Arifullah, 52, Abdullah, 32, Ihsanullah, 35, and a student Mohammad Abdullah, 8. The injured included Walid, 30, Sajid, 13, Mir Saood, 25, Amir, 14, Kashif, 12, and Amjad, 30, and they were shifted to the DHQ Hospital, the newspaper reported.

Bannu regional police chief Syed Ashfaq Anwar and DPO Ziauddin Ahmed along with military officials inspected the crime scene after the attack.

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