BANNU: At least eight persons were killed while five others including a station house officer (SHO) sustained injuries in a suicide attack targeting the Kakki Police Station, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 10 December, 2012.
Police officials said that three suicide bombers tried to enter the police station, sited 17 kilometres from the Bannu city, early in the day. When the guard at the entrance resisted, one of them blew himself up while another bomber went to hide in the nearby mosque and the third one was killed by the policemen.
Hearing the blast, armed civilians in the area reached the spot to assist the police. The bomber, who was hiding in the mosque, attacked the civilians with a hand-grenade and then opened fire, killing three policemen, two civilians and a soldier.
In the retaliatory fire, the police killed the bomber inside the mosque.
Meanwhile, talking to reporters by phone from an undisclosed location, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan claimed responsibility for the attack on the Kakki Police Station.
“We wanted to avenge the recent killing of late TTP chief Baitullah Mahsud’s nephew Ibrahim Mahsud by the police.” Ibrahim Mahsud was killed in Bannu.
DND
