{"id":12621,"date":"2026-05-10T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/suicide-bomb-attack-police-station-bannu-pakistan-12-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:45:22","slug":"suicide-bomb-attack-police-station-bannu-pakistan-12-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/suicide-bomb-attack-police-station-bannu-pakistan-12-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Bomb Attack on Pakistani Police Station Kills 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people were killed and several security personnel wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a police station on the outskirts of Bannu city in northwest Pakistan. The attack occurred when the suicide bomber detonated explosives concealed in a vehicle near the police building.<\/p>\n<p>Following the explosion, a group of armed assailants stormed the scene and opened fire on the police forces. Local sources reported that the ensuing armed confrontation lasted for some time, leading to increased casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Reports also indicate that after the initial blast, police reinforcements were dispatched to evacuate the wounded and support their colleagues. However, the attackers had set up a pre-planned ambush along their route, resulting in a higher number of victims.<\/p>\n<p>Bannu city is located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a region that has experienced numerous similar attacks on security installations in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bombing and armed attack on a police station in Bannu, Pakistan, killed 12 and injured several security personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}