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Car Bomb and Gunmen Kill at Least 15 Police at Bannu Checkpoint

The strike points to evolving militant tactics that now include drones plus large, coordinated assaults.

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A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)
A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officers and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)
Police officers and local residents examine the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)

Overview

  • The Fateh Khel police checkpoint in Bannu was leveled late Saturday after a suicide car bomb cleared the way for gunmen, leaving between 12 and 15 officers dead according to updated tallies.
  • Officials said the attackers used quadcopter drones and heavy weapons, and they ambushed police reinforcements rushing to the post.
  • A group calling itself Ittehad‑ul‑Mujahideen Pakistan claimed responsibility, and police continued search and clearance operations as rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble.
  • The blast damaged nearby homes, hospitals declared an emergency, and families waited for news as bodies and the injured were brought to Bannu’s main facilities.
  • Days earlier, the army said it killed five Tehreek‑e‑Taliban Pakistan fighters in raids in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, a backdrop to the surge in cross‑border militancy that Pakistan links to sanctuaries in Afghanistan which the Taliban deny.