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- Police say 4 officers went lacking after dacoits’ assault.
- Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemns assault on police.
- Vows govt to face beside households of martyred cops.
RAHIM YAR KHAN: At least 12 policemen have been martyred and 6 sustained accidents after kacha bandits attacked their vans with rockets in a riverine space of Punjab’s Rahim Yar Khan on Thursday.
The horrific assault occurred within the Machka space positioned in considered one of Rahim Yar Khan’s riverine areas.
Police officers instructed the media that two police vans with greater than 20 cops have been trapped in rainwater within the locality when bandits launched rockets at them.
As a results of the fierce assault, a dozen cops have been martyred whereas seven others have been wounded and 5 went lacking, the police added.
They stated that the wounded cops have been instantly shifted to the hospital the place one of many wounded officers succumbed to his wounds, taking the loss of life toll to 12.
According to the police, the lacking 5 policemen have been safely rescued.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the dacoits’ assault on Punjab police and paid tribute to the martyred cops.
He additionally prayed for the early restoration of the wounded policemen and pledged that the federal government would stand beside the households of the martyred cops.
In an announcement, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz expressed sorrow over the martyrdom of police personnel saying that the sacrifices of the cops will at all times be remembered.
She directed the authorities involved to take instant motion to recuperate the lacking policemen.
The chief minister additionally sought a report from the Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar on the Rahim Yar Khan incident moreover directing to supply one of the best medical support to the injured police officers.
Following her directives, the Punjab police chief, Additional IG Special Branch, Additional IG Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and different related officers left for Rahim Yar Khan, as per the assertion.
Bandit teams in riverine areas have at all times been a hurdle in sustaining regulation and order for the provincial governments in Sindh and Punjab regardless of conducting a number of operations to remove them.
A National Action Plan implementation assessment committee determined in a gathering on the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) headquarters in April to launch a joint operation of Sindh and Punjab police forces in opposition to infamous dacoits of the kacha areas in Sindh.
The directives have been issued by Interior Minister Naqvi who chaired the high-level assembly attended by the inside secretary, heads of Nacta and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), police chiefs of Punjab, Sindh, KP, Balochistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and provincial house secretaries.
