Pakistani Taliban target police, kill 4 in roadside bombing

By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say militants targeted police in two attacks in the country’s volatile northwest, killing four officers and wounding six. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks on Thursday. In one attack, police say a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying officers, killing four of them. The officers were reinforcements responding to an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. Six officers were wounded in the attack on the station. There has been an increase in attacks in Pakistan after the Pakistani Taliban ended a cease-fire with the government.