Terrorist attacks in Pakistan/ 8 soldiers killed, 7 policemen kidnapped.
Eight security personnel were killed and seven policemen were abducted in separate attacks in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Pakistani intelligence official told AFP.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that “eight soldiers” and “nine militants” were killed in clashes between security forces and militants in the Tirah area. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
A senior police official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that in a separate attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, “seven police officers were abducted from a police station.”
He added that the attackers also seized weapons belonging to the police. Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the volatile border areas with Afghanistan. The group also killed 10 police officers on October 25. Attacks by extremist or separatist groups on Pakistani security forces are frequent across the country of 240 million people.
On Saturday, seven security forces were killed by a separatist group in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. A week earlier, the same group had attacked a train station in Quetta, killing 26 people, including 14 security forces.