Gunmen Abduct 7 Police In Pakistan's Volatile Northwest

Armed men kidnapped seven police officers in Pakistan's northwest on November 18, residents and police officials told Radio Mashaal. The police chief of Bannu district, where the incident took place, told reporters a search mission had been launched for the abducted officers. Local sources told Radio Mashaal the attackers disarmed the policemen after surrounding the security post and then abducted them. No group has claimed responsibility. The incident follows an attack on October 14 in which four Pakistani police officers and five insurgents were killed when militants stormed a Bannu police headquarters in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The Islamist militant group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for that attack.