Not less than 4 Pakistani policemen have been killed and as many as injured within the terrorist assault on a newly-constructed police station within the nation’s unstable Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.
The Bargai police station in Laki Marwat bordering the south Waziristan tribal district was attacked by terrorists carrying deadly weapons, together with hand grenades and rocket launchers, police stated.
The suspected terrorists fled the scene after a fierce alternate with the police, it stated.
A heavy police contingent launched a search operation within the space to trace down the suspects.
Mehmud Khan, the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, described the assault as an act of cowardice and sought a direct report from the provincial police chief.
President Arif Alvi additionally expressed his condolences to the grieving households and condemned the assault saying “our efforts will proceed till the entire elimination of the remnants of terrorism”.
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Though no group has instantly claimed accountability for the assault, the earlier assaults on police within the district have been claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The TTP, arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007 known as off a ceasefire agreed upon with the federal authorities in June and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults throughout the nation.
Final month, militants attacked a police patrol automobile, killing all six policemen in the identical space. The Pakistani Taliban claimed accountability for the ambush.
The group, which is believed to be near al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on navy bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Lodge in Islamabad.