ISLAMABAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least six policemen were killed and one other was injured in two separate incidents of firing in Pakistan over the last 24 hours, police said Sunday.
Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto, Superintendent Police, said that three policemen were sitting in a parked police vehicle on Sunday when some unknown gunmen sprayed bullets on them in capital city Karachi of the country's south Sindh province, and fled the scene.
All three policemen were seriously wounded in the attack and shifted to a nearby hospital where two of them succumbed to injuries while the third is still in critical condition.
The policemen'autopsy report said that all three of them were shot in the head from a close distance.
In a separate attack in Kohat district of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province late last night, four policemen were killed when their vehicle came under attack by unknown assailants, police said.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Raza Khan said that an unknown number of militants ambushed a police vehicle in Mohsin Khel area of the district, killing four policemen including an official.
Khan said that the militants sprayed bullets at the vehicle when it was on its routine patrolling on the highway, and fled the scene.
Heavy contingent of police reached the attack site and kicked off a search operation.
Jamaat ul Ahrar, a splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for both the attacks on the cops.
Police kicked off search operations, after both incidents, but no arrest has taken place yet.
