Pakistan: 7 policemen killed, two other security personnel injured in two separate attacks in North Waziristan

At least seven security personnel were killed and two injured in two separate terror attacks on security forces in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said on Sunday. Five security personnel were killed and two injured during the first attack, local officials said.

Pakistani security officials said the terror attack took place in the Hassan Khel area of ​​North Waziristan district bordering Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device detonated targeting a bomb disposal unit on Saturday. The militants opened fire on the forces soon after the blast started, Dawn News quoted the official as saying.

In another incident, militants attacked a security check post in Seeman area of ​​the same district on Saturday, killing two security personnel, local officials said. They said the bodies of the security personnel and the injured were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Bannu. Soon after the attacks, security forces cordoned off the areas and launched a search operation in the areas.

Police said both these attacks came after unidentified militants blew up a private girls school in Tehsil Shewa of North Waziristan district on the night of May 8. Police said the militants first tortured the watchman and later blew up two rooms of the school. Similar attacks took place in May last year too, when two government girls schools were blown up in Mirali. No loss of life or property was reported in the incidents.