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 mentioned.
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 troopers 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 mentioned two officers had been killed and three others wounded.
The incident additionally left three of the attackers lifeless, studies 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 pressure on guard engaged them in a gun battle for hours,” and law enforcement officials had been wounded, police official Iftikhar Shah informed Reuters information company.
In accordance with Pakistan’s DawnNewsTV, Shah mentioned all remaining officers on the submit had been evacuated safely and a search operation was beneath approach 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, Daybreak reported {that a} group referred to as Ansarul Jihad claimed the assault.
The police didn’t confirm the authenticity of the claims.
In accordance with the AP, a navy submit was additionally focused on Friday morning. Two troopers had been reportedly killed and 5 wounded, native police official Salim Khan mentioned.
On Tuesday, armed males stormed a navy submit within the city of Daraban, about 60km (37 miles) from Dera Ismail Khan metropolis. The fighters rammed a car laden with explosives into the principle gate of the police station, adopted by a suicide bombing assault, the military mentioned.
That assault was claimed by the lately fashioned 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 yr, with a number of lethal assaults going down. In January, at the least 101 individuals had been killed when a suicide bomber focused a mosque within the capital, Peshawar.
The TTP has been waging a battle in opposition to the state for years, searching for to overthrow the federal government and substitute it with a harsh model of Islamic governance.
Authorities say fighters have develop into emboldened whereas residing brazenly in Afghanistan because the Taliban took it over in 2021.
