Death toll at 31 in Pakistan police compound attack, AFP reports
Police said 16 of the dead were officers, and more than 100 people were injured as security forces killed all eight attackers.
- On Friday, attackers stormed the Old Police Lines complex in Kohat, Pakistan, detonating an explosives-laden car and opening fire, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 100.
- Pakistan has increasingly blamed militant attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on elements operating from Afghanistan, though the Taliban government denies involvement in the violence.
- Gunmen stormed the facility as officers and their families prayed in a mosque, while several militants remain holed up in the Special Branch section with ongoing fire exchanges.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack, directing that "best medical assistance be provided to the injured," while President Asif Ali Zardari expressed "regret" over the casualties.
- Ittehad-Ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, a Pakistani Taliban faction, claimed responsibility for the assault, underscoring the ongoing threat from militant groups operating in the region.
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Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest – WTOP News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces on Saturday ended a standoff with militants holed up inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. The confrontation began Friday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a mosque, and gunmen stormed the facility, killing 21 people and wounding 103 others. The coordinated attack...
The number of deaths in an attack on a police station in Pakistan has increased to more than 30.
Pakistan police compound attack death toll rises to 31
The death toll from an explosion and gun attack at a police headquarters in northern Pakistan rose to at least 31, including 16 police personnel, a senior police official said yesterday.Attackers stormed the Old Police Lines complex at Kohat on Friday afternoon.The police compound serves as a distri
The bomb attack is part of an increase in the activity of armed terrorist organizations in the border areas of the Pakistani northwest.
At least 31 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, local officials said. The attack took place on Friday in Kohat district, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, an area that has been plagued by armed attacks and militant activity for years, abc writes. According to authorities, the attacker used a vehicle packed with explosives and rammed it into a police compound. The explosion occurred at…
An explosive and firearms attack on a police headquarters in northern Pakistan.
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