On Sunday, members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who had been arrested on suspicion of terrorism seized the guns of police officers who were interrogating them and seized the building
All 33 Islamic militants who had taken over a terrorist interrogation center in northwest Pakistan since Sunday are dead.
Pakistani security forces managed to recapture the Bannu city police station and free the hostages. Two members of the special forces were killed in this operation and 10-15 others were injured, as the Minister of Defense announced in Parliament. “All the hostages have been released,” said Muhammad Asif, stressing that “the operation was completed successfully.”
On Sunday, members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) organization who had been arrested on suspicion of terrorism, grabbed the guns of the police who were interrogating them and occupied the building. “There were 33 terrorists from various organizations (…) who were held in this counter-terrorism agency area (…) when one of them hit the guard on the head with a brick while escorting him to the toilet and grabbed his gun,” Muhammad Ali said. Saif, a representative of the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The defense minister explained that the special forces intervened when the attackers disagreed among themselves about how the hostages should be treated.
The perpetrators were demanding that the authorities provide them with safe passage to Afghanistan.
The TTP claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking. A spokesman for the group told AFP that the special forces “suffered heavy losses”. The organization is not related to the Afghan Taliban, although it shares the same ideology with them.
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