🔶 Deadly ground attack by the Pakistani Taliban; 11 policemen were killed.
At least 11 Pakistani policemen were killed and 12 others injured in an armed militant ground attack on a convoy of security forces in the Kohat area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, November 11 (Evan 20).
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group, known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the ground attack hours after the incident.
According to police officials, gunmen attacked the convoy of the security forces in the Darbokach area of Jalandhar Banda, located on the connecting route between Kohat and Karak.
These forces moved towards the area where an operation against illegal gold mining was to be carried out.
The attackers shot at the police vehicles from a nearby height and during the confrontation five security forces vehicles were also set on fire.
The local authorities announced that Haider Zaman, the deputy police chief of the Gambat area, and Mukhtar, one of the senior police officers, were among the dead. Faisal Khan, one of the local police chiefs, announced that the clash between the security forces and the attackers continued after the initial ground attack.