D G Khan police foil terror attack on check post
At least 15 to 20 terrorists attacked the police formation with sophisticated weapons
Lahore: Police on Wednesday foiled a terrorist attack on the Jhangi check post in Dera Ghazi Khan late on Wednesday at night, police said and added that at least seven police personnel were injured in the attack.
D G Khan Regional Police Officer Sajjad Hassan Khan told the media that the Jhangi check post is located on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border in the Taunsa area.
He said that up to 20 terrorists armed with modern weapons wanted to capture the check post, but they fled in the darkness of the night after the attack was repulsed by policemen.
The Punjab police stated that it was a second attack on the check post during the two months. Punjab police issued a statement regarding this attack on ‘X’.
However, the officials reached at the crime scene and shifted the injured ones in the attack to the nearest hospital.
On this the inspector general Punjab Dr. Usman Anwar appreciated the police force that they have failed the terrorists attack.
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