Militant Attack on Pakistani Police Checkpoint Leaves Four Dead

This marks the third attack on police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the past three days, escalating the ongoing violence in the region.

Three police officers and a civilian were killed in a pre-dawn attack by about a dozen militants on a police checkpoint in Kohat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
The attack triggered a shootout and the assailants fled the scene. A search is currently underway to find them.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban who often target security forces, especially in the northwest near the Afghan border.
This is the third attack on police in the past three days in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bringing the total number of officers killed to 12.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen a rise in violence with deadly incursions by militants last year. Last January, at least 101 people were killed, mostly police officers, when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Peshawar.