At least 10 people killed in attack on Pakistani police station

At least 10 police officers were killed in an attack on a police station in north-west Pakistan.

Violence has gotten worse before the country’s elections this week.

Terrorists attacked around 03:00 in the morning on Monday in Draban region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. They started with shooting from a distance and then threw grenades, as per the police.

The shooting went on for more than two and a half hours and nine other people got hurt.

We don’t know who did the attack yet, but the area has been attacked by different groups for a long time, including the Pakistan Taliban, Islamic State, and other militant groups targeting the government, security, and civilians.

A person running for government was killed last week in a different area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Recently in Balochistan, a region in Pakistan’s southwest, a political leader was shot and killed in his party’s election office. Also, a bomb attack after a political rally killed at least four people. The Islamic State said they did the attack.

The army also stopped 24 terrorists in Balochistan last week.

The Election Commission of Pakistan has divided 45,337 polling stations into two categories: “sensitive” and “most sensitive” based on the risk of violence. The categories are determined by how safe the area is and its past experiences with election violence.