PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants armed with assault rifles attacked a safety put up in restive northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, killing a police officer and a civilian, officers mentioned.
One other officer was additionally wounded within the assault on the Draban Put up in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, native police official Abdullah Khan mentioned, including that the civilian was an worker of the Customs division.
He additionally mentioned safety forces returned hearth and that “a bunch of insurgents” fled the scene.
Nobody claimed accountability for the assault however suspicion was prone to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, often known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, who typically goal safety forces throughout the nation, particularly within the former tribal areas within the troubled northwest bordering Afghanistan.
Safety forces have additionally stepped up intelligence-based operations in opposition to the Pakistani Taliban, emboldened because the Afghan Taliban seized energy in Afghanistan in 2021. The TTP is a separate group however a detailed ally of the Afghan Taliban.
