ISLAMABAD: Militants yesterday killed three people in attacks targeting police in Pakistan’s restive northwest, officials said.
A suicide bomber killed one policeman in Tahl, about 100km southwest of Peshawar, while two brothers of a police station chief died in an attack on his home in Dera Ismail Khan.
“Up to six militants attacked Tahl police station and one blew himself when police responded to firing,” district police chief Anwar Saeed Kundi said. “A policeman was killed and another was wounded,” he said, adding the other attackers fled.
Militants attacked the home of a police station chief in Dera Ismail Khan, some 240km south of Peshawar, and killed his two brothers, district police chief Sadiq Baloch said. Police officer Saifur Rehman was not at home when the attack occurred. He said Rehman’s brothers were killed in revenge for an operation on Sunday in which one militant was killed and another wounded. AFP
