{"id":12627,"date":"2026-05-10T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/suicide-car-bomb-bannu-kills-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:30:19","slug":"suicide-car-bomb-bannu-kills-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/suicide-car-bomb-bannu-kills-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Car Bomb in Bannu Kills Four Police Officers, Raises Fears of More Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani media have reported that at least four police officers were killed in a suicide car bomb explosion in Bannu, located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The incident took place at a security checkpoint in the city, sparking concerns over rising casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters quoted a police official, Sajjad Khan, who said that as many as 15 more officers manning a security post on the outskirts of Bannu might also have lost their lives. The final death toll has not yet been officially confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, a gunfight broke out at the scene following the explosion. Security sources added that attackers used drones during the assault.<\/p>\n<p>A group calling itself the &#8220;Ittehad al-Mujahideen&#8221; has claimed responsibility for the attack. Bannu is among the insecure areas in northwest Pakistan that have experienced repeated attacks on security forces in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide car bomb in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kills four police officers; a militant group claims responsibility amid ongoing security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12627","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\/12627","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=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}