Police and soldiers killed as more violence flares in northwest Pakistan
Al Jazeera
The second attack this week on police posts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also saw three attackers killed.
Several officers and soldiers have been killed and injured in attacks by armed men on a police station and an army outpost in northwest Pakistan, police said.
The assaults came on Friday morning, extending a growing campaign of violence in former Taliban strongholds along the border with Afghanistan. Three days earlier, a suicide bomber killed 23 Pakistani soldiers in the same province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Friday’s attack on the police occurred in the Tank district of the province’s Dera Ismail Khan division. Police said two officers were killed and three others wounded.
The incident also left three of the attackers dead, reports Al Jazeera’s Abid Hussain.
Two were killed by police while the third blew himself up, he reported. An unexploded suicide jacket has also been found and police launched an operation to secure the compound.
