Two policemen killed as militants storm police headquarters in Pakistan
The Hindu
At least 2 policemen killed in attack on Police Lines in Tank, Pakistan by Ansarul Jihad, a new militant group.
At least two policemen were killed and as many as injured after militants attacked a regional police headquarters in a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan on Friday, three days after terrorists killed 23 soldiers in the same region.
The attack occurred at the Police Lines in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, the Dawn newspaper reported.
A “terrorist blew himself up in a suicide bomb” and that the “huge attack was thwarted”, the newspaper quoted Tank District Police Officer Iftikhar Shah as saying.
He said that all contingents present in the Police Lines were evacuated safely and that a search operation was underway after alerts of the presence of more militants in the area.
The attack was claimed by a new militant group, Ansarul Jihad.
The attack comes days after at least 23 soldiers were killed and more than 30 others injured after militants belonging to the Tehreek-i-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a newly formed militant group that is an affiliate of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), stormed a compound used by the military in Dera Ismail Khan.
The TJP terror outfit has been behind some major attacks in Pakistan.
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