Attack on northwest Pakistan police post kills 11 officers

Fifteen attackers were besides killed during the hours-long raid successful Pakistan’s northwestern Hangu district.

An ambush connected a constabulary checkpoint successful Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state has killed astatine slightest 11 constabulary officers and injured dozens, according to section authorities.

The onslaught precocious connected Wednesday took spot successful the Hangu territory adjacent the Afghan border. The attackers archetypal utilized explosive-laden quadcopters to people the constabulary station earlier ambushing it, according to a constabulary statement.

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Security forces engaged successful an hours-long weapon conflict with the attackers, sidesplitting 15 of them portion sustaining dense casualties, said section police.

In summation to the 11 constabulary officers killed, 28 were hospitalised with injuries.

Among those killed was Deputy Superintendent Diyar Khan, who had led reinforcements to the scene, section constabulary said.

Attackers acceptable 3 constabulary cars alight and took different constabulary vehicle, added territory constabulary serviceman Mujahid Hussain.

No radical has claimed work for the latest attack, which came days aft a deadly termination bombing targeting Pakistani soldiers successful the adjacent territory of Tank. The Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, claimed work for ⁠the termination attack.

Violence successful Pakistan’s borderline areas has risen sharply successful caller months, targeting chiefly the subject and constabulary aft an equipped struggle betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan killed hundreds earlier this year.

Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said determination has been a spike successful attacks targeting constabulary and information forces on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Islamabad claims fighters usage harmless havens successful Afghanistan to bid and ‌plan attacks successful Pakistan. Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities has denied the complaint and said the unrest is Pakistan’s home problem.

The Pakistan Taliban has been waging ⁠a rebellion against the Pakistani authorities since 2007 successful an effort to overthrow the authorities and regenerate it with their ain marque of governance.

The surging attacks on the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderline person the imaginable to reignite warring betwixt the neighbours. The 2 countries engaged successful their worst warring successful years successful February, ‌with ‌Pakistan carrying retired aerial strikes wrong Afghanistan.

“Relations betwixt Afghanistan and Pakistan person dropped to an all-time low,” said Hyder. “Each broadside accuses the different of harbouring groups that [work against each other].”