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Pakistan militants raid security post, kill three policemen
Jan 13, 2012, 7:45 GMT
Islamabad - At least three policemen were killed and 11 injured in a militant attack on a security post in north-western Pakistan, a police official said Friday.
The raid by 100 to 150 militants late Thursday in the Sarband area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of militancy-plagued Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, led to clashes with police and paramilitary forces that continued until early Friday, Jalal Uddin said by phone.
'The attack was repulsed, and the militants suffered losses, but they took the bodies and injured with them,' Uddin said without being able to give a casualty figure for the militants.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Taliban militants have carried out such attacks in the past.
The strike was mounted from the Bara area and was believed to be in retaliation for an operation Thursday against militants conducted by police and paramilitary forces in the Bara and Akakhel areas in the Khyber tribal district, which borders Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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