{"id":7852,"date":"2023-12-15T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:01:39","slug":"pakistan-soldiers-killed-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/pakistan-soldiers-killed-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Soldiers Killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several officers and soldiers have been killed and injured in attacks by armed men on a police station and an army outpost in northwest Pakistan, police said.<br \/>\nThe assaults came on Friday morning, extending a growing campaign of violence in former Taliban strongholds along the border with Afghanistan. Three days earlier, a suicide bomber killed 23 Pakistani soldiers in the same province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<br \/>\nFriday\u2019s attack on the police occurred in the Tank district of the province\u2019s Dera Ismail Khan division. Police said two officers were killed and three others wounded.<br \/>\nTwo were killed by police while the third blew himself up, he reported. An unexploded suicide jacket has also been found and police launched an operation to secure the compound.<br \/>\n\u201cOur force on guard engaged them in a gun battle for hours,\u201d and police officers were wounded, police official Iftikhar Shah told Reuters news agency.<br \/>\nShah said all remaining officers at the post were evacuated safely and a search operation was under way after alerts of more armed men present in the area.<br \/>\nAn armed group that identified itself as Ansar-ul-Islam claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released to a Reuters reporter. However, Dawn reported that a group called Ansarul Jihad claimed the attack.<br \/>\nKhyber Pakhtunkhwa has witnessed a rise in violence this year, with several deadly attacks taking place. In January, at least 101 people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a mosque in the capital, Peshawar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Several officers and soldiers have been killed and injured in attacks by armed men on a police station and an army outpost in northwest Pakistan, police said. The assaults came on Friday morning, extending a growing campaign of violence in former Taliban strongholds along the border with Afghanistan. Three days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}