Militants attack a security post in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 officers

Militants armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a security post in northwest Pakistan and killed 10 officers in an intense shootout, police said Friday, October 25, 2024.

“Other security forces were wounded in the overnight attack in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,” local police official Abdul Rauf said.

He said the assailants suffered casualties, but they fled along with their dead and injured accomplices when authorities dispatched reinforcements to the security post in the town of Draban.