{"id":24754,"date":"2025-10-24T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24754"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:04:09","slug":"two-explosions-near-checkpoint-in-hangu-kill-sp-two-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24754","title":{"rendered":"Two explosions near checkpoint in Hangu kill SP, two police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two explosions have occured near a police checkpoint in Hangu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Superintendent of Police Operations Asad Zubair and two police officers were martyred in the blast, the police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Express<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the first explosion took place near the checkpoint, and as the late SP Asad Zubair was heading to the scene, a second blast occured.\u00a0The injured secuirty personnel has been shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>SP Asad Zubair Photo: Express<\/p>\n<p>K-P Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has condemned the attack and has sought an immediate report from the Inspector General of Police Zulfiqar Hameed. &#8220;The incident is deeply tragic, and those responsible will be brough to justice at all costs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sacrifices of SP Operations and the two martyred officers will not go in vain.&#8221;\u00a0He added that such cowardly attacks cannot weaken the resolve of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and the police.<\/p>\n<p>CM Afridi prayed for the departed officers and the strength for their bereaved families.\u00a0The chief minister has convened a meeting of the Apex Committee to review the province&#8217;s security situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story&#8230;..<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two explosions have occured near a police checkpoint in Hangu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Superintendent of Police Operations Asad Zubair and two police officers were martyred in the blast, the police confirmed. Photo: Express According to sources, the first explosion took place near the checkpoint, and as the late SP Asad Zubair was heading to the scene, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}