(14 Jan 2012)
1. Soldiers walking along road outside police station, scene of suicide bomb attack
2. Smoke rising from police station after attacks
3. Scene outside, police moving around
4. Two policemen standing in front of bomb-blasted police station building
5. Policemen in destroyed compound
6. Policeman looking through documents salvaged after attack
7. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Sohail Khalid, Dera Ismail Khan district police officer:
"There were four attackers. They attacked the District Police Officer's office, they were in police uniform and started firing with AK-47 machine guns, then police engaged all four of them, and all were shot and killed."
8. Various of damage and debris at destroyed police compound
9. Dusty shoe in debris
10. Burnt remains in building
11. Wide of police out
12. Various of injured men lying in hospital ward
13. Wide of soldiers on street
STORYLINE:
Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, sparking a firefight that killed one officer and three civilians, according to a local police official.
The militants struck about midday (0700 GMT) on Saturday in Dera Ismail Khan district and fighting continued for hours afterwards.
Between eight and ten attackers wearing police uniforms assaulted the station, and three suicide bombers detonated their explosives during the battle, police said.
A police officer at the scene said that there were four attackers in police uniform who started firing with AK-47 machine guns, "then police engaged all four of them, and all were shot and killed."
It was unclear why there was a discrepancy in the numbers of attackers and those killed.
The district sits at the edge of South Waziristan tribal region that served as Pakistani Taliban headquarters before the Pakistani army launched an offensive in late 2009.
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