Fifteen people, including 12 military personnel, two police officers, and a former forest department official, have been killed in a terrorist attack on a police post in northwestern Pakistan, an official statement said on Friday.
The attack took place on Thursday night in the Tank district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, when attackers "rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the perimeter wall" of a police check post in an attempt to breach it, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media and public relations wing of Pakistan's armed forces.
The attackers were affiliated with "Indian-sponsored Fitna Al Khwarij," the statement said, a terminology Islamabad uses to refer to the terrorist group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
There was no immediate reaction from India, which, in the past, has denied the accusation.
Twelve attackers were killed during the attack, according to the statement.
A "sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Indian sponsored Kharji found in the area," it added.
