Gunfight leaves 3 dead in Pakistan’s Peshawar
A fresh gunfight between police and armed men has claimed the lives of three people in the city of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s troubled northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Rana Omer, a senior police official in Peshawar, told AFP that the exchange of fire broke out late Friday after unknown gunmen fired at a police van patrolling the city’s suburbs.
One policeman and two militants were killed in the incident, said Omer, adding that at least five people, including four officers, sustained injuries in the confrontation.
“The militants fired at our mobile team which was on a routine patrol in Pushtakhara area at night. We responded to the gunfire and killed two attackers while one escaped after being wounded,” the official said.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the assault so far.
On September 2, the police operation to dismantle a Pakistani Taliban hideout in Peshawar’s Urmar Payan area left three officers dead and six others wounded.
Peshawar has been the scene of numerous attacks perpetrated by members of pro-Taliban militant groups.
The Pakistani city suffered its worst ever act of terrorism in December last year, when a group of pro-Taliban militants mounted an attack against Peshawar’s Army School, where about 150 people, mostly children, were massacred.
Pakistan has been waging a major offensive against militant hideouts across the troubled northwestern tribal regions since June 2014 to quell violence that has raged unabated following the 2001 US-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials say almost 3,000 militants have been killed since the launch of the operation.
This is while Pakistani military intelligence service (ISI) is known as a staunch supporter of the Taliban.
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