Taliban militants killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb, and wounded six others in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan early yesterday, police and the insurgents said.
The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to the attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province bordering Afghanistan.
Six officers were wounded in the attack at the police station.
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Local police officer Ashfaq Khan said a search was underway for the militant suspects who attacked the police station in Lakki Marwat and later targeted the police vehicle with a bomb.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks. The group known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban.
The TTP has been emboldened since the Afghan Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 when US and NATO troops were leaving the country after 20 years of war.
Many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuaries in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover.
Pakistan has seen innumerable militant attacks in the past two decades, but there has been an uptick since November last year, when the TTP ended a months-long Afghan Taliban-brokered ceasefire with the government of Pakistan. In January, more than 80 officers were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar.
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