In different attacks, militants killed four people including a policeman and Amn Committee volunteers.
A suicide bomber killed one policeman in Hangu district.
In another attack by militant on house of police station chief, two brothers of a police station chief killed in Dera Ismail Khan.
Police chief Anwar Saeed Kundi told AFP “A group of up to six militants attacked Tal police station in Hangu district and one of the attackers blew himself when police intercepted them and responded to firing.”
Kundi also said that “A policeman was martyred and another was wounded.”
Security forces launched a search operation in Tal tehsil of Hangu, arresting at least 40 suspects.
District police chief Sadiq Baloch told AFP that, in a separate militants attacked the home of a police station chief in Dera Ismail Khan, some 240 kilometres south of Peshawar, and killed his two brothers.
In a separate attack, a member of Amn Committee, Zahir Shah, was gunned down in Swat’s Kabal Tehsil.
