Key facts
- At least 31 people, including 16 police officers, were killed in an attack on a police compound in Kohat, Pakistan.
- The attack occurred at the Old Police Lines complex, a district-level police headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
- More than 100 people were injured, mostly police personnel.
- The militant group Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
The death toll from an explosion and gun attack at a police headquarters in northern Pakistan rose to at least 31, including 16 police personnel, a senior police official told AFP on Saturday, with fighting ongoing. Attackers stormed the Old Police Lines complex at Kohat, a town of around 220,000 people in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, on Friday afternoon. The police compound serves as a district-level police headquarters, housing key offices of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Special Branch and several other police units. More than 100 injured so far in the militant attack and suicide bombing, the vast majority of them police personnel, and several were in a critical condition, the official said. Local militant group Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, a faction linked to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- the Pakistani Taliban -- has claimed responsibility for the attack.