Pakistan militants kill 4 police officers, hurt 6 in attacks
Taliban militants have killed four police officers and wounded six in a pair of attacks in northwest Pakistan PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Taliban militants in a pair of attacks killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan early Thursday, police and the insurgents said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to the attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. Six officers were wounded in the attack at the police station. Local police officer Ashfaq Khan said a search was underway for the militant suspects who attacked the police station in Lakki Marwat and later targeted the police vehicle with a bomb. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif condemned the attack , saying he was saddened by the "martyrdom" of the targeted officers . “The sacrifices of our police officers in the w...