A minimum of eight Pakistani safety personnel have been killed after Islamist militants attacked a navy base in Bannu cantonment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
(The Bannu base is situated on the border with the North Waziristan tribal space, recognized to be a hotbed of Islamist militancy, and is near the border with Afghanistan.)
In response to Reuters, the casualties occurred after a suicide bomber crashed a automobile full of explosives into a fringe wall.
Among the many lifeless have been seven troopers and one paramilitary soldier.
Later, in a press release, the Pakistani navy stated safety forces additionally killed all 10 attackers who focused the Bannu base.
“This well timed and efficient response prevented a serious disaster and saved treasured harmless lives,” the assertion stated.
A Geo Information report instructed that the phobia assault occurred within the early hours of July 15, when the terrorists’ try and enter the Bannu Cantonment premises was foiled.
They then crashed a automobile loaded with explosives into the perimeter wall of the cantonment, inflicting the collapse of part of the wall and damaging the adjoining infrastructure.
The report additionally quoted a navy spokesman as saying the assault was carried out by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group working from Afghanistan.
