ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 21 (NNN-PPI) – A string of terrorist attacks on police, in Pakistan’s north-west Dera Ismail Khan district, left six people killed and several others injured on Sunday morning, a police officer said.
In the first attack, two policemen were killed and several others injured, when some unknown militants sprayed bullets at a police check post and fled the scene.
The second attack happened at a hospital, where the policemen were shifting their injured colleagues, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Iftikhar Shah, said.
A female suicide bomber blew herself up near the policemen, at the main gate of the hospital, leaving four more policemen killed and scores of others injured.
Dera Ismail Khan is a main district in the country’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which used to be a hotbed of militancy, but terrorism has been curtailed greatly, after years of military operation in tribal areas.
Local analysts believe that the backbone of the militants has been broken, but they still have some resources left to carry out sporadic attacks on security forces and the general public.– NNN-PPI
