12 killed as militants attack police checkpoint in Pakistan

At slightest 12 radical person been killed and 5 others injured aft militants carried retired a coordinated onslaught involving a car weaponry astatine a constabulary checkpoint successful northwestern Pakistan.

Police officials confirmed that the incidental occurred late Saturday night successful the Fateh Khel country of Bannu successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

According to a elder constabulary official, Muhammad Sajjad Khan, the attackers utilized a termination vehicle-borne explosive device, ramming it into the checkpoint earlier equipped militants moved successful and opened occurrence connected information unit stationed there.

He said the battle did not extremity with gunfire, arsenic the attackers besides deployed tiny drones, commonly referred to arsenic quadcopters, to intensify the onslaught connected the constabulary position.

Authorities further disclosed that aft the archetypal assault, the militants retreated with immoderate constabulary unit and seized weapons from the checkpoint.

Security sources confirmed that astatine slightest 12 constabulary officers were killed successful the attack, portion 1 serviceman remains missing, with hunt efforts presently underway.

The incidental is the latest successful a bid of militant operations reported successful the region, which has witnessed a resurgence of unit successful caller months.

Security analysts enactment that the broader Khyber Pakhtunkhwa portion has experienced accrued instabi...