Overview
- Attackers first detonated a suicide car bomb at a police checkpoint in Bannu’s Fateh Khel area, then gunmen entered the site and exchanged fire with security personnel.
- Police officials quoted by AFP and Reuters reported at least 12 security personnel killed and five wounded in the overnight assault.
- Authorities said three security personnel were found alive and taken to hospital, and one person remains missing.
- Police launched a search of the area and opened a formal inquiry, and no official claim of responsibility has been confirmed in those statements.
- Sky News Arabia, citing the German press agency, later reported at least 15 police dead and said a newly formed group claimed the attack, a claim authorities had not verified.