Taliban militants destroy 4 law enforcement officers, harm 6 in northwest Pakistan | World News

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Taliban militants killed 4 law enforcement officers by focusing on a law enforcement motor vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded 6 in an assault on a law enforcement station in northwest Pakistan early Thursday, law enforcement and the insurgents mentioned.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed accountability for the two assaults. (Representational picture) (AP)(*6*)

The bomb killed 4 officers in a law enforcement motor vehicle carrying reinforcements despatched to answer to the assault on a law enforcement station in Lakki Marwat, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. 6 officers have been wounded in the assault at the law enforcement station.

Community law enforcement officer Ashfaq Khan mentioned a look for was underway for the militant suspects who attacked the law enforcement station in Lakki Marwat and afterwards qualified the law enforcement motor vehicle with a bomb.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed accountability for the two assaults. The team know as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP is different but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban. There has been an uptick in assaults in Pakistan right after the Pakistani Taliban finished a stop-fireplace with the federal government of Pakistan.

TTP has been emboldened because the Afghan Taliban seized energy in Afghanistan in 2021 when U.S. and NATO troops have been leaving the region right after twenty yrs of war. Quite a few TTP leaders and fighters have located sanctuaries in Afghanistan because the Taliban takeover.

Pakistan has witnessed countless militant assaults in the previous two a long time but there has been an uptick because November, when the TTP finished a monthslong Afghan Taliban-brokered stop-fireplace with the federal government of Pakistan.