23 people killed in an attack on military base in Pakistan

At least 23 soldiers died and many were hurt in Pakistan when militants attacked a police building.

The attack happened early in the morning when a car with explosives crashed into the building in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan.

A group of fighters linked to the Pakistani Taliban has said they are behind the attack on Tuesday.

The compound was being used as a place for the Pakistani army to stay.

Before the car crashed into the area, a few fighters tried to get into the compound in Dera Ismail Khan, but they couldn’t, according to the army.

The group used a truck with explosives to break through the compound’s wall. Then, they set off a bomb that made the building collapse.

Some people are worried that the bullets and bombs kept in the building in Dera Ismail Khan might have blown up too. A person in charge said a lot of people were killed while they were sleeping.

The military said that six people who attacked were killed. It said that 27 fighters were killed in military operations in the area last night.

Pakistan’s temporary Prime Minister Anwaar ul-Haq Kakar and temporary Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti criticized the attack.

The Tahreek-e-Jihad Pakistan (TJP), a group that started this year, claimed that its members were responsible for the attack on Tuesday.

Violent groups in Pakistan have been increasing attacks, especially in areas near Afghanistan’s border, after the strict Islamist group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended a temporary truce last year.

Experts say that the TTP feel braver because the group that controls Afghanistan is back in power.

Islamabad says that rebels work from places on the other side of the border. The Taliban in Afghanistan keeps saying it’s not true.

The TTP, also known as the Pakistan Taliban group, has been fighting against the country’s military and police for a long time. The group has the same strict beliefs as the Afghan Taliban but is not part of it.

The group wants to make its own rules based on Sharia law in the north-west of Pakistan.

In January, a bomb exploded at a mosque in Peshawar and more than 100 people died. At that time, the TTP said they didn’t do the attack. They said a commander from another group did it.