Two police personnel were martyred and four others injured on Thursday when an improvised explosive device struck an armoured personnel carrier near Kari Malang on the Hathala–Galoti Road, officials said.
Police said an unidentified terrorist detonated the roadside bomb as an APC from the Takwara police post passed through the area. Constable Saifur Rehman and Ramzan, the APC driver, were killed in the explosion.
The injured were identified as Mehmood Alam, Asif Rehman, Kifayat, and Shahid, an FC havaldar. They were shifted to a nearby hospital.
Security forces later cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.
The blast occurred near Takwara village in the Hathala area, around 35 kilometres from Dera Ismail Khan and about 10 kilometres from Kulachi tehsil, on the route leading to South Waziristan.
The locality, which also houses the Hathala police station, is considered a no-go area, where police routinely patrol in armoured vehicles due to security threats.
The attack was carried out using a locally made, high-intensity IED weighing between 8 and 10 kilograms.
