Militants in north-west Pakistan have attacked a regional police headquarters and two military posts, killing four officials and three militants in the shooting of the two sides, which said the attack was carried out on Friday morning at a regional police headquarters and two army posts in the province.
Three days ago, 23 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bomber in the same province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local police chief Iftikhar Shah said, two police officers were killed and three others were injured in the attack on the tank town of Dera Ismail Khan. Two attackers were killed by the police during the attack on a nearby army post.
Al Jazeera's representative Abid Hussain said three attackers were also killed in the incident, two killed in police firing and a third blasted themselves in an unexploded suicide jacket, which was recovered by police to secure the barracks. Police officer Iftikhar Shah said the gun battle was smashed by the militants for hours and the gunfight was reported in the gunfight, according to Pakistan's Don News TV, Shah said that all the other officers at the check post were evacuated safely and more militants were reportedly in the area.
A report sent to a reporter of the swamp, said the attack on an armed group called Ansar-ul-Islam, but another group called Ansarul Jihad said that two soldiers were killed and five injured in the city.
