{"id":47419,"date":"2026-05-10T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47419"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:40:16","slug":"car-bomb-attack-on-checkpoint-kills-at-least-12-in-northwest-pakistan-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/car-bomb-attack-on-checkpoint-kills-at-least-12-in-northwest-pakistan-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb attack on checkpoint kills at least 12 in northwest Pakistan: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 12 and wounding five, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night in the Fateh Khel area of Bannu, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpoint, after which multiple militants entered the post,&#8221; Bannu police official Muhammad Sajjad Khan told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He said that 12 officers were confirmed dead with one more missing, the latest attack in the border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a wave of militancy that has strained ties between Islamabad and Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen stormed the police checkpost after the car blast, opening fire, according to officials who said they also used small drones in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the assault, the militants used quadcopters along with heavy weaponry,&#8221; a senior administrative official in Bannu told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, while retreating, the attackers took police personnel and weapons from the station with them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bannu has been gripped in recent years by militant activity that has grown across Pakistan&#8217;s border regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban government in Kabul denies Pakistan&#8217;s accusations that Afghan territory is a safe harbour for militants, but the frosty relationship has spiralled into deadly armed conflict, including Pakistani airstrikes on cities in Afghanistan in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 12 and wounding five, officials said on Sunday. &#8220;Last night in the Fateh Khel area of Bannu, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpoint, after which multiple militants entered the post,&#8221; Bannu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47421,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions\/47421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}