Pakistani security officials offering funeral prayers for police officers killed in an attack on a police convoy in Kohat. (AFP pic)PESHAWAR: Gunmen attacked police during an operation against illegal gold mining in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 10 officers, while 18 militants died in the ensuing fighting, an official police statement said.
A statement by provincial police in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said officers were returning from a mine in the Gumbat area of Kohat district when militants opened fire on them.
In addition to the 10 police and 18 militant deaths, 12 police personnel were wounded, the statement said.
In the aftermath of the clashes, the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for a series of attacks across the country, including one on a police convoy in the Gumbat area.
