The legislation enforcers stated the unidentified assailants focused the Customs officers on the Sago Street in Daraban tehsil of the district.
A driver, a citizen and 4 Customs personnel had been killed within the firing incident, the police added.
The armed attackers, who hid in bushes, attacked the Customs’ automobile and fled the scene unchallenged on bikes.
Because of the assault, the motive force of the Customs automobile misplaced management and collided with one other automobile, ensuing within the dying of the citizen.
The our bodies of the victims had been shifted to the district headquarters hospital (DHQ) by rescue ambulances.
Following the incident, police and legislation enforcement companies cordoned off the positioning of the incident and gathered forensic proof.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur “strongly” condemned the incident and expressed remorse over the martyrdom of the Customs officers and a passer-by within the incident.
He supplied condolences to the households of the deceased and directed the cops to take crucial steps to arrest the weather concerned within the incident.