Around two dozen Taliban armed with rocket launchers and automatic weapons attacked a police checkpost in northwest Pakistan Sunday, killing three policemen and wounding another, police said.
The militants struck before dawn in Shangla, a district of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near Swat.
“Three policemen were killed and one injured in the attack,” district police chief Jahanzeb Khan told AFP by telephone.
Shah Hussain, another senior police officer, said Taliban militants were involved in the attack.
“Taliban came from the nearby mountains and managed to flee after the attack,” he said.
