Police say militants attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing three police officers and wounding one.
Police
officer Jahanzeb Khan says the militants attacked the checkpoint in the
Karora area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around midnight Saturday.
Jahanzeb is the police chief of Shangla district, where Karora is
located.
Karora is near the Swat Valley, an area that Taliban
militants overran several years ago before the army launched a major
offensive in the spring of 2009. Violence has dropped in the area, but
militants still carry out occasional attacks. AP
