A suicide bomber was killed by self-detonating his suicide vest to evade arrest during a search operation by Police near Dera Tank road area of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 17, reports Samaa TV. According to the officials, they received information about an attack in the area after which they cordoned it off. When the Police reached the site, a terrorist clad in a suicide bomb jacket opened fire at them. “When we fired at him in response, the suspect got injured and then detonated the bomb,” a Police officer said. The spokesperson of the bomb disposal squad said that the militant’s jacket was loaded with five kilogrammes of explosives. “It had seven to eight kilogrammes of ball bearings and phosphorous.”