Three attackers had been additionally reported killed within the second assault this week on police posts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A number of officers and troopers have been killed and injured in assaults by armed males on a police station and a military outpost in northwest Pakistan, police stated.
The assaults got here on Friday morning, extending a rising marketing campaign of violence in former Taliban strongholds alongside the border with Afghanistan. Three days earlier, a suicide bomber killed 23 Pakistani soldiers in the identical province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Friday’s assault on the police occurred within the Tank district of the province’s Dera Ismail Khan division. Police stated two officers had been killed and three others wounded.
The incident additionally left three of the attackers useless, reviews Al Jazeera’s Abid Hussain.
Two had been killed by police whereas the third blew himself up, he reported. An unexploded suicide jacket has additionally been discovered and police launched an operation to safe the compound.
“Our force on guard engaged them in a gun battle for hours,” and law enforcement officials had been wounded, police official Iftikhar Shah instructed Reuters information company.
Based on Pakistan’s DawnNewsTV, Shah stated all remaining officers on the put up had been evacuated safely and a search operation was below manner after alerts of extra armed males current within the space.
An armed group that recognized itself as Ansar-ul-Islam claimed duty for the assault in an announcement launched to a Reuters reporter. Nonetheless, Dawn reported {that a} group known as Ansarul Jihad claimed the assault.
The police didn’t confirm the authenticity of the claims.
Based on the AP, a navy put up was additionally focused on Friday morning. Two troopers had been reportedly killed and 5 wounded, native police official Salim Khan stated.
On Tuesday, armed males stormed a navy put up within the city of Daraban, about 60km (37 miles) from Dera Ismail Khan metropolis. The fighters rammed a automobile laden with explosives into the principle gate of the police station, adopted by a suicide bombing assault, the military stated.
That assault was claimed by the just lately shaped militant Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistani group, which is believed to be an offshoot of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or the Pakistani Taliban.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has witnessed an increase in violence this 12 months, with a number of lethal assaults happening. In January, at the very least 101 individuals were killed when a suicide bomber focused a mosque within the capital, Peshawar.
The TTP has been waging a battle towards the state for years, looking for to overthrow the federal government and substitute it with a harsh model of Islamic governance.
Authorities say fighters have grow to be emboldened whereas dwelling overtly in Afghanistan because the Taliban took it over in 2021.
