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Twin attacks by militants kill 3 police officers, wound 20 in restive northwest Pakistan
Officials said militants killed 3 police officers and wounded 20 more in separate attacks that police linked to suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan militants.
- On Wednesday, twin attacks in northwest Pakistan killed three police officers and wounded 20, marking escalating violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.
- Militants first ambushed a security convoy in the Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing three police officers, local police official Ibrahim Khan said; hours later, a suicide bomber struck a police station in Bannu.
- The Upper Dir ambush killed three officers and wounded 15, while the Bannu suicide bombing wounded at least five officers and damaged the police station.
- While no group claimed responsibility, suspicion for the twin attacks falls on the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan , which remains closely allied with Afghanistan's Taliban.
- Pakistan has accused the TTP of operating from sanctuaries inside Afghanistan, a charge both the militant group and the Taliban-led government in Kabul deny.
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Three policemen were killed and 20 others were injured in an ambush by gunmen of a security convoy and a suicide attack on a police station in north-western Pakistan on Wednesday. Security sources reported that the first attack took place in the Dir al-Hali district of Khyber Bakhtunkhwa province, where armed men ambushed a security convoy, killing three policemen and injuring 15 others.
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Twin attacks by militants kill 3 police officers, wound 20 in restive northwest Pakistan
Officials say a suicide bomber and a group of militants have attacked a police station and a security convoy hour apart in restive northwest Pakistan, killing at least three police officers and wounding 20 others.
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C 25%
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