A teacher and his son were killed on Friday in a blast after one of them stepped on a landmine in this northwestern city of Pakistan. The victims — school teacher and his 12-year-old son — were examine the plants when one of them stepped on the landmine resulting in the explosion near a police check post in Mardan district of Khyber Pakthunkhwa, police said.
Police rushed to the spot and initiated search operation in the area. The bodies were shifted to Mardan medical complex for postmortem. Meanwhile, Peshawar police on Friday arrested two suspected terrorists during a raid on a house here and seized huge cache of explosives. According to police, the suspects belonged to Afghanistan.