TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police personnel have become the primary target of rebel forces in Pakistan. Three people have been killed in attacks by suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistani fighters in a remote area northwest of Pakistan yesterday.
On Monday, a suicide bomber killed one policeman in Tahl, about 100 kilometers southwest of Peshawar, while two brothers of a police station chief died in a separate attack on his home in Dera Ismail Khan.
"A group of up to six militants attacked Tahl police station and one of the attackers blew himself when police intercepted them and responded to firing," district police chief Anwar Saeed Kundi told the Al Jazeera news agency.
On the same day, fighters attacked the home of a police station chief in Dera Ismail Khan, about 240 kilometers south of Peshawar and killed his two brothers. The police officer, SaifurRehman, was not at home when the attack occurred, district police chief Sadiq Baloch said.
Baloch said that the attack was carried out in retaliation against an operation on Sunday in which one rebel fighter was killed and another wounded. Nobody has claimed the responsibility for the attacks, but Pakistani Taliban fighters are known to routinely target police and security forces in the area.
AL JAZEERA | NATALIA SANTI
