At least three police personnel were killed and two others injured today in a militant attack on a police check post in the northern Gilgit region, police said.
About eight to ten militants attacked the police post, early this morning in mohallah Majnay of the Gilgit’s Kargah valley,” they said. Two militants were killed in retaliatory fire, police said.
The injured policemen were rushed to a district hospital, they added.