Two police officers were killed and a driver was seriously injured when armed attackers opened fire on a mobile patrol in Mohmand district, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a police account reported by Dawn.
The attack took place on Thursday night near the Warsak Lift Canal in the Machni area. Police identified the officers who died as Additional Station House Officer Zaitullah and Elite Force constable Noor Zeb. The patrol vehicle’s driver, identified as Zahir, received initial treatment before being transferred to Peshawar for further medical care. No later update on his condition was included in the report.
Police said the patrol personnel returned fire and caused the assailants to withdraw. The official statement also said several attackers were reportedly killed during the exchange, but it did not provide a confirmed number or identify them. That part of the account had not been independently verified in the supplied reporting. Authorities said the fleeing group left behind an M4 rifle, a Kalashnikov-style assault rifle and three loaded magazines.
Senior local officers and additional police units arrived after the shooting. The response included cordoning off the area and beginning search and clearance operations. A manhunt for those who escaped was continuing when the police statement was issued. The supplied source did not name a group as responsible or describe any arrests, so responsibility remained unconfirmed.
Police publicly renewed their commitment to operations against militant violence following the attack. That statement reflected the force’s official position and did not establish further facts about the identities, number or motives of the gunmen. The incident occurred in a patrol setting, with the available account describing a direct armed confrontation rather than an attack whose wider circumstances had already been independently reconstructed.
The two officers were later buried with state honours at Police Lines in Ghalanai. Those attending the funeral prayers included Mohmand District Police Officer Raza Mohammad, Mohmand Rifles Commandant Asim Mahmood, member of the National Assembly Sajid Khan, and other police and civil administration officials.
The report leaves several important questions unresolved, including how many attackers took part, whether any were killed, and whether a specific organisation ordered the assault. The evidence available for this account is a single news report drawing substantially on a police statement. Those limitations make the confirmed core of the event the deaths of the two named officers, the serious injury to the driver and the continuing search operation. Later official or independent reporting would be needed to establish the disputed details and determine whether the weapons recovered at the scene can be linked conclusively to those who carried out the attack.
