Militants had in the early hours of Saturday, attacked a military post in Pakistan close to Afghanistan, using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, according to a report by Pakistan’s military.
The incident in northwest Pakistan was done by six attackers, the military’s media wing had added in a statement, but the name of the militant group responsible for the attack had been withheld.
“The terrorists rammed a vehicle carrying explosives into the post, followed by multiple suicide bombing attacks, which led to a portion of the building collapsing , and resulting into Shahadat (martyrdom) of five,” the statement read.
Residents in Waziristan, an area sharing borders with Afghanistan in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had informed Reuters that an explosion had shaken the doors in the area, and damaged windows around the time the attack began.
Pakistani government and security officials have remarked that attacks such as these have mounted in recent months, many of them claimed by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). Officials say militants are using Afghan soil to launch their attacks.
That has severed the relationship between Pakistan and the ruling Afghan Taliban, who refute the allegations of allowing Afghanistan to be used by militants.
