Three policemen have been killed and one wounded in a Taliban attack on a police check post in northwest Pakistan.
Around two dozen armed Taliban insurgents attacked a police check post at Shangla in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.
Police said that the militants suddenly launched the attack at the check post late at night, killing three policemen- including Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Aurangzeb- on duty.
The Taliban militants came from the nearby mountains and managed to flee after the attack, a foreign news agency quoted a senior police officer, as saying.
The wounded person has been shifted to the district headquarters hospital at Shangla, where his condition is serious, Geo News reports.
Meanwhile, a heavy contingent of police has cordoned off the area and is hunting for the culprits, but no arrest has been made so far.
Since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007, nearly 4,500 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks that have been blamed on the Taliban and other extremist networks based in the border tribal belt. ANI
