PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Dozens of Islamic terrorists militants attacked a security checkpost in northwestern Pakistan early Sunday, leaving three security personnel and at least one militant dead, police said.
Fierce fighting erupted after up to 60 terrorists insurgents armed with rocket launchers and machine guns attacked the checkpost in Mattni village, on the outskirts of Peshawar, senior police official Nasirul Mulk Bangash told AFP. ‘Two paramilitary soldiers and one policeman embraced martyrdom and six others were injured during the fighting,’ he said.
One terrorists militant was also killed and several others wounded in the gunbattle which lasted for more than 90 minutes, but terrorists militants ran away fled with their casualties towards Khyber tribal district, he said. The site of the clash was near the lawless Darra Adam Khel district where militants occupied a Japanese-built road tunnel last month. Fifty terrorists militants and 15 soldiers were killed when troops cleared terrorists rebels from the tunnel.
| Is there a district in Pakistain that isn't lawless? |
 In a separate incident on Sunday, an Islamic terrorist militant was killed and three paramilitary troops were wounded in a clash in the tribal zone of North Waziristan, officials said. The terrorist rebel threw a hand grenade at a checkpost in the crowded main market in Miranshah, the main town in the troubled region, and was killed when troops returned fire, a local administration official added.
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