Gunmen kill 4 Pakistani police near border with Afghanistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Unidentified gunmen attacked a constabulary patrol overnight successful northwest Pakistan, sidesplitting 4 earlier fleeing the scene, a constabulary authoritative said Wednesday.

No radical claimed work for the onslaught successful Lakki Marwat, a municipality successful the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa state bordering Afghanistan. Police authoritative Umar Khan said a hunt cognition for the culprits was inactive underway.

Khan provided nary further details and lone said the ceremonial of slain officers was held Wednesday morning.

Pakistan has witnessed scores of specified violent attacks successful caller years, astir of person been claimed by the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State group. Both organizations person been emboldened by Taliban resurgence successful neighboring Afghanistan, wherever Pakistani militants are inactive believed to beryllium hiding.

Before the the Taliban came to powerfulness successful Afghanistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan often accused each different of turning a unsighted oculus to militants operating on their porous border.