Two policemen killed as militants storm police headquarters in Pakistan

No less than two policemen had been killed and as many as injured after militants attacked a regional police headquarters in a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan on Friday, three days after terrorists killed 23 troopers in the identical area.

The assault occurred on the Police Traces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, the Daybreak newspaper reported.

A “terrorist blew himself up in a suicide bomb” and that the “large assault was thwarted”, the newspaper quoted Tank District Police Officer Iftikhar Shah as saying.

He mentioned that every one contingents current within the Police Traces had been evacuated safely and {that a} search operation was underway after alerts of the presence of extra militants within the space.

The assault was claimed by a brand new militant group, Ansarul Jihad.

The assault comes days after a minimum of 23 troopers had been killed and greater than 30 others injured after militants belonging to the Tehreek-i-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a newly fashioned militant group that’s an affiliate of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), stormed a compound utilized by the army in Dera Ismail Khan.

New terror outfit

The TJP terror outfit has been behind some main assaults in Pakistan.

On November 4, the TJP militants attacked the Pakistan Air Power’s Mianwali Coaching Air Base, some 300 km from Lahore, damaging three grounded plane.

The terrorists have repeatedly attacked the safety and army installations in Pakistan.

In September 2015, Taliban gunmen killed 29 individuals, together with 16 worshippers in a mosque, after they stormed Badaber air base, near the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar.

In Could 2011, 15 terrorists belonging to TTP and Al Qaeda attacked PNS Mehran, the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy’s Naval Air Arm, situated in Sindh and killed 18 army personnel and wounded 16. Two American-built surveillance plane had been additionally destroyed.