JK News Today
At least 23 soldiers were killed when militants rammed an explosive-laden truck into a police station in Khyber-Paktunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Tuesday, report in Express Tribune said.
The military’s media wing added that the terrorists rammed the explosive-laden vehicle after their attempts to gain entry were ‘effectively thwarted’.
The Express Tribune report further said “The car bomb was followed by another suicide attack, leading to the collapse of the building, causing multiple casualties. Six terrorists were killed in the attack, said ISPR.
Security forces were using the police station as a base camp, security officials told Reuters and added that they fear that ammunition stored inside might have also exploded.
The military’s media wing said sanitization operations are being conducted to ‘eliminate any other terrorist present in the area’.
Several people were wounded and in critical condition, said Aizaz Mehmood, an official of the state-run rescue service. “We are still hearing gunshots,” he told Reuters at the time of the last update around noon.”
