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Extremists Ambush Police in Northwest Pakistan, Killing 4
- On Wednesday, at least four policemen were killed and two critically wounded after Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorists ambushed a police patrol in the Wanda Budh area, Pinyala Police Station, Dera Ismail Khan district.
- Police said the patrol was returning from an operation when it came under attack on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, which sits on the edge of Waziristan district.
- Police said they killed four militants in a retaliatory attack after SHO Faheem Mumtaz Khan Marwat and three officers were killed, injured officers were rushed to hospital.
- Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Suhail Afridi condemned the attack and called the officers' sacrifice brave, while police said no one claimed responsibility.
- Amid a rising wave of Islamist violence, some reports gave a different toll, saying five police officers were killed as militants attack in northwest Pakistan, police said.
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InternazionaleMilitants kill five police in attack in northwest Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Feb 11 - Militants killed five police officers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, as the South Asian nation grapples with a rising wave of Islamist violence. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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C 20%
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