Peshawar: In an early-Thursday attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan, Taliban militants wounded six people and killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb, according to police and the insurgents.

Four police officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to deal with the attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in the Afghan bordering province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were killed by the bomb. The attack at the police station left six officers hurt.

The militant suspects who attacked the Lakki Marwat police station and later targeted the police vehicle with a bomb are being sought after, according to local police officer Ashfaq Khan.

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Both attacks were blamed on the Pakistani Taliban. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, also known as TTP, is a distinct organisation that is allied with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Since the Pakistani Taliban brokered a cease-fire with the Pakistani government, there has been an increase in attacks in Pakistan.

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Since the Afghan Taliban took control of the nation in 2021, as US and NATO troops were preparing to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict, the TTP has grown more confident. Since the Taliban took over, many TTP leaders and fighters have found refuge in Afghanistan.

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Numerous militant attacks have occurred in Pakistan over the past 20 years, but since the TTP brokered a cease-fire with the Pakistani government for several months in November, there has been an increase.