Pakistan ambush kills four police: officials

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Source: AFP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen killed four police officers in a pre-dawn ambush Monday in an area of northwest Pakistan troubled by militancy on the main supply route to Afghanistan, officials said.

In another incident a bomb killed a soldier in the northwestern town of Bannu.

In the attack on police, assailants targeted a police van on night patrol in the Bara district on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, senior police officer Qazi Jamil said.

"Around 10 assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles who had been hiding on both sides of the road opened fire and killed all four police officials," he told AFP.

The incident happened on the main road to eastern Afghanistan near Sarband police station, where territory under direct government control slips into the restive tribal region of Khyber.

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