Six militants were besides killed during the incident. (Photo: @india_narrative/X)
At slightest 10 information unit and six militants were killed aft an explosive-laden conveyance was detonated astatine a information outpost successful Bannu, a territory successful Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the country’s service said connected Wednesday.
Pakistan military’s media helping released a connection saying that the effort was thwarted aft the conveyance was forced to ram into the perimeter partition of the outpost. “Sanitisation cognition is being conducted successful the country and the perpetrators of this heinous enactment volition beryllium brought to justice,” it said.
While the subject did not supply details of who was down the attack, an Islamist militant group, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, claimed responsibility.
The Bannu territory has seen heightened militant unit of late, including the abduction of constabulary personnel, an onslaught connected a girls’ schoolhouse and a shootout that martyred 3 information men, Dawn reported.
On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a caller subject violative against separatist insurgents successful southwestern Balochistan province, which borders Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is location to cardinal Chinese Belt and Road projects, aft a spate of attacks successful the area.
PTV News reported that Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi besides condemned the attack.
In the southwestern province, the Army has been progressive successful an equipped struggle with the Baloch Liberation Army, which had claimed work for the Quetta railway presumption blast connected November 7 and the Karachi International Airport blast connected October 6.