Pakistani Taliban Target Police, Kill 4 in Roadside Bombing

Pakistani Taliban Target Police, Kill 4 in Roadside Bombing
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Terrorists in Pakistan targeted the country’s police force in two attacks in a volatile northwestern province on Thursday, killing four officers and wounding six, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks.

In one attack, police say a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying officers, killing four of them. The officers were reinforcements responding to an attack earlier in the day on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province bordering Afghanistan. Six officers were wounded in the attack on the station.