Taliban attack on Pakistan checkpost

Suicide bombers have attacked a military checkpost in Pakistan, killing 8 people, officials say. Source: AAP

SUICIDE bombers attacked a military checkpost in Pakistan's troubled northwest, killing six soldiers and two civilians, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

"Six security personnel and two civilians were killed in the attack," a security official said of the raid which happened on Saturday around 240km south of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

The attack was on a joint checkpost of the Pakistan army and a paramilitary force in the Sari Norang area of Lakki Marwat district, close to the semi-autonomous tribal belt swarming with Taliban and al Qaeda-linked militants.

"The civilian casualties include a child and a woman who were killed when one of the attackers entered their home and blew up his suicide jacket," the official said.

Another security official in Peshawar said security forces killed 12 militants.

The Taliban claimed the attack but disputed 12 militants were killed, saying they had sent only four suicide bombers.

"We sent only four suicide bombers to attack this checkpost. We attacked it to avenge the killing of two of our friends in a recent drone strike," Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said by phone.

Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants are accused of plotting attacks from the tribal belt on Pakistani, Afghan and Western targets.

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