Pakistani Taliban splinter group claims suicide attack, 14 police dead
The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers, authorities said early on Sunday.
A self-proclaimed breakaway group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed the attack.
A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, late on Saturday, senior police official Sajjad Khan said.
The attack triggered an intense shoot-out, and some...
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