ISLAMABAD (Net) — A head-on traffic collision in Pakistan’s southwest killed seven police officers who were returning home for the Eid holidays, an official said.
They died at the scene of the crash on a national highway in the Khuzdar area of Baluchistan province on Saturday night, according to police official Fahad Khoso.
Khoso said the collision was between the officers’ vehicle and a truck. The seven men had finished a course at police training college.
In a separate incident, a shootout in the country’s restive northwest killed two soldiers and eight mili-tants.
The Pakistani army said late Saturday there was an intense exchange of fire between security forces and militants during the raid on a hideout in South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the slain militants, the army said.
The country is seeing a rise in militant attacks since the end of a cease-fire last November between the banned group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the government.
The government said earlier this month it will carry out a massive anti-terrorist operation across the country to counter the wave of violence.
