(Adnkronos) – The toll of an attack carried out in Pakistan by armed men against a police convoy during an operation against an illegal gold mining site is 10 policemen and 18 fighters killed. Afp reports this citing local sources.
The officers were returning from a mine in the Darbukach area, in the Kohat district, when armed men opened fire on them, according to a statement from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial police. Twelve law enforcement members were injured, the police specified.
A senior administrative official in Kohat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had previously told Afp that two police vehicles were set on fire during the attack and that two other police vehicles and a private vehicle were still missing. Another senior administrative official in the Orakzai area, Kohat district, reported that ten Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters were killed in a separate operation.
Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been particularly tense since the Taliban’s rise to power in 2021 and have deteriorated following deadly border clashes in October 2025, which led to an almost complete border closure.
