Three policemen martyred in TTP attack in northern Pakistan

PESHAWAR: TTP on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police post in northern Pakistan that martyred three police officers.

Attackers threw grenades at a police outpost near the Afghan border in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and entered the premises where a suicide bomber detonated explosives, according to police.

They said the number of wounded was not yet known. In November, banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said it would no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government.

TTP militants have been waging a campaign of bombings and suicide attacks for over a decade in a bid to run Pakistan under a harsh brand of Islamic law. They have ramped up attacks after calling off the ceasefire brokered by the Afghan Taliban in May.

Pakistan’s military has launched periodic offensives in regions along the Afghan border that have served as safe havens for militants.