Two policemen were martyred in a terrorist attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Charsadda district on Saturday, police officials said.

Terrorists opened fire at a police checkpost in Dheri Zardad on Nowshehra Road, in this latest attack on law enforcers, Charsadda District Police Officer Sohail Khalid told Geo News.

During the attack, three policemen had been bruised and shifted to District Headquarters Hospital. However, two of them later succumbed to their injuries, while the third is under treatment at the hospital, the police said.

According to police, the terrorists fled the site of the attack following a retaliatory fire during which one of them was also injured, search for whom is currently underway.

Following the attack, heavy police depending reached the site and began the search operation on a large scale, the police said.

Martyred policemen include constables, Imran and Rameez, while the third law enforcer Yousuf Ali was shifted to Peshawar due to critical injuries.