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2023-12-12 India-Pakistan
Suicide bomber attacks police station in northwest Pakistan, killing 23 officers and wounding 32
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, killing at least 23 troops and wounding 32 others, and causing a part of the building to collapse upon impact, the military and officials said.

The suicide attack — one of the deadliest attacks since January — led to "multiple causalities," Pakistan’s army said in a statement. It added that six militants also opened fire and a shootout ensued for hours between them and security forces before "the terrorists" were gunned down. Local police officials also confirmed all six attackers were dead.

Separately, the statement said that "troops killed 27 insurgents" in multiple operations in the same region.

The death toll from Tuesday’s attack was likely to rise as some of the officers were in critical condition, authorities said. The bodies of the 23 security forces killed were transferred to a hospital, Mohammad Adnan, a senior police official told reporters.

The attack targeted the Daraban police station in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, local police officer Kamal said. The province is a former stronghold of the militant Pakistani Taliban group, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.

The newly formed militant group Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, or TJP
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— believed to be an offshoot of the TTP — claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, saying it targeted the officers who were at the police station. The statement also claimed that 20 officers were killed. However, this couldn’t be independently verified.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-12 06:30|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
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#2 The unequivocal diplomatic and moral support of the Pakistaini military - whatever your enterprise, if that ain't the Good Housekeeping Stamp of Failure then I don't know what!
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