Death toll at 31 in Pakistan police compound attack, AFP reports
A local militant faction claimed the assault as police said more than 100 people were wounded and several attackers were killed.
- 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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18 police officers, 6 civilians killed in attack during Friday prayers in northwestern Kohat district
The operation was claimed by the Islamists of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Distinct from the Afghan Taliban but allied with them, the group is at the heart of the tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = A bomb and shooting attack occurred at a police headquarters complex in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan, killing 16 police officers and...
According to the authorities, the attack was launched by a suicide attack on Friday afternoon in the compound of the historic police station in Kohat, a city of about 220,000 inhabitants located in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the midst of an increasing insurgency. This complex serves as a police headquarters at the district level and houses the main offices of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), the Special Branch and several othe…
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