(14 Oct 2024)
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Bannu, Pakistan - 14 October 2024
1. Various top shots of the area where militants attacked a police station ++UPSOUND: gun shots++
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Rehmatullah Khan, local resident:
“We came to know that armed militants attacked a nearby police station. Intermittent fighting is still going on and there are reports of gun fires between the police and militants, as a result of which police and militants have been killed, as well as the city of Bannu being completely shut down.”
3. Police vehicle arriving at local hospital carrying wounded
4. Various of bodies being wheeled to morgue
5. Various of police on street stopping people toward police station
6. Wide of empty street
STORYLINE:
At least three police officers and four insurgents were killed in an attack on a police station on Monday in the district of Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani police said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who often target security forces across the country.
"We came to know that armed militants attacked nearby police station," said local resident Rehmatullah Khan.
"Intermittent fighting is still going on and there are reports of gun fires between the police and militants, as a result of which police and militants have been killed, as well as the city of Bannu being completely shut down.”
Earlier in the day, China's Premier Li Qiang arrived in Islamabad for a two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization starting on Tuesday to discuss how to boost security and economic ties between the member states.
Li is the most prominent leader attending this week's meeting in Pakistan of a regional security grouping that was founded by Russia and China to counter Western alliances, despite a surge in militant violence in the country.
During his three-day visit, Li will also meet with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and senior political and military leadership.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said the SCO meeting will also be attended by representatives of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
It said Iran's vice president and the Indian foreign minister would also attend.
AP video by Farhatullah Babar
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