1 militant killed, other 5 arrested as they attack on police checkpoint in Peshawar: police


At least one gunman was killed and five others arrested on Friday after they opened fire on a police checkpoint in Peshawar, police said. The attackers stormed the checkpoint in the heart of the city, not far from the residence of the region’s top army commander and a luxury hotel where at least nine people were killed in a suicide bombing late Tuesday. “One attacker was killed and five others were arrested after they attacked a police checkpoint at Khyber road,” Peshawar police chief

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