8 policemen killed in blast, ambush in NW Pakistan

At least eight policemen have been killed and several others injured here in twin attacks, including a blast, in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan.
Militants today targeted a police mobile vehicle on Charsadda-Nowshehra road with a remote-controlled bomb, killing three policemen and injuring 33 others, including 12 police personnel.
This was the second attack on police in the restive province in less than seven hours and came less than a week after the Pakistani Taliban ended a ceasefire to help peace talks in the country.
The explosives were planted in a motorcycle parked outside a shop at Farooq Azam chowk, police sources said.

Police personnel immediately reached the site of the incident and shifted the victims to District Hospital Charsadda.
The area has been cordoned off and a search operation has been launched to nab the culprits.

The attack came hours after five policemen were killed when militants ambushed their vehicle in Badabair village late last night.
The condition of seven injured, who were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, was said to be critical.
The Nawaz Sharif government had begun negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) through intermediaries in February to try to end the cycle of violence that has claimed over 40,000 lives.