Overview
- An armoured police vehicle was destroyed by a remote-controlled bomb in Tank district, with reports putting the death toll between five and seven officers, including a station house officer identified locally as Ishaq.
- Police said they launched search operations at the blast site and opened an investigation, with senior officials condemning the attack and pledging tougher intelligence-based raids.
- In a separate incident the same day, an IED near Darra Tang in Lakki Marwat injured three policemen, including a station house officer, according to district police.
- No group immediately claimed responsibility for the Tank bombing, though officials frequently attribute recent attacks on security forces to the Pakistani Taliban, which is allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.
- Hours earlier, KP police and the CTD reported killing eight militants in Bannu, Khyber and Zahir Garhi, identifying two as Sohail alias Sangari and Ismail alias Usman and recovering weapons and a TTP-linked card, while police also repelled an overnight assault on Bannu’s Nala Kasho post without casualties.