Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack. (agent)
Peshawar:
A group of heavily armed militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban stormed a police station in a suburb of the restive northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing three policemen, including a senior police officer, officials said.
SSP Operations Peshawar Kashif Abbasi said around six to seven terrorists attacked the Sarband police station bordering Khyber tribal district with hand grenades, automatic weapons and sniper shots and three policemen were killed in the exchange of fire.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The three policemen who died include Deputy Superintendent of Police Sardar Hussain and two constables.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari said the policemen successfully foiled the terrorist attack on the station and fought bravely.
The DSP was injured in the firing that took place while entering the building. He died in the hospital.
Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Mahmood Khan condemned the incident and said that the sacrifice of the police in the war against terrorism will not go in vain.
A search operation is on to trace the attackers.
TTP spokesman Muhammad Khurasani said in a statement that his mujahideen attacked two police posts in Peshawar with laser guns last night.
The TTP claimed to have killed four policemen, including a DSP-rank police officer, and injured three in the attack, as well as seized two Kalashnikovs, two magazines and Rs 47,000.
In another statement, its spokesperson also claimed responsibility for the attack on a joint security post of police and CTD in tehsil Tunsa Sharif of Dera Ghazi Khan district in southern Punjab, in which two policemen were killed.
The TTP, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organization of various armed terrorist groups operating along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Formed in 2007, the group shares a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban and aided them in the 2001–2021 war.
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