According to police, there is currently a hostage scenario at the CTD installation. The compound was quickly surrounded by security personnel and Pakistan Army troops.
Digital Desk: In the northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Taliban terrorists reportedly took control of a police station on Sunday and held hostages there.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters broke into the Bannu cantonment in the troubled province, according to a Pakistani police official speaking to the news agency PTI, and they released terrorists who were being kept hostage.
They later overran a portion of the property and held terrorism department (CTD) security guards hostage.
According to Bannu police spokesman Muhammad Naseeb, "it's not clear if the terrorists assaulted from outside, or if they took the ammunition from workers inside" after their capture.
According to police, there is currently a hostage scenario at the CTD installation. The compound was quickly surrounded by security personnel and Pakistan Army troops.
Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's special communications assistant, claimed the situation is under control.
The Taliban insurgents claimed that nine police officers were held hostage in a video they posted from within the CTD facility, and they demanded safe air travel to Afghanistan in exchange for the release of the hostages.
The incident occurred after terrorists stormed a police station in Lakki Marwat, a tribal district bordering South Waziristan, early on Sunday morning. According to a PTI report, the attack left four officers dead and as many injured.
The TTP instructed its militants to carry out terrorist strikes across Pakistan last month after calling off a truce reached with the government of Pakistan in June.
