Two attacks targeting a security convoy and a police station have left at least three officers dead and 20 injured in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday.
The first attack saw a security convoy ambushed in the district of Upper Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing three police officers and wounding 15 others, local police official Ibrahim Khan said.
He added that security forces had returned fire and the exchange was ongoing, but did not specify if any of the fighters had been killed during the ambush.
Hours later, an explosives-filled vehicle was rammed into a police station in the city of Bannu, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, wounding at least five police officers, the authority added.
The blast damaged part of the station, but no fatalities were immediately reported.
No group has immediately claimed responsibility for either attacks, but the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, is suspected to have carried it out.
Pakistan has accused the group of operating from areas inside Afghanistan, a charge both the TTP and the Taliban-led government in Kabul deny.
The TTP is separated from Afghanistan's Taliban, but remains a close ally.
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