Unidentified gunmen shot dead a police officer and wounded two others near a checkpoint here on Friday, a police spokesman said.
The incident happened on the edge of the capital when the police tried to stop two men riding on a motorbike for a routine search.
“All of a sudden the motorcycle riders opened fire on them, one police head-constable has been martyred,” Muhammad Zia Ul Qamar, a spokesman for Islamabad police, said. He said another policeman and a paramilitary soldier were wounded. After the incident, the police launched a search operation to arrest the gunmen.
