{"id":18761,"date":"2026-07-30T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/30\/deadly-attack-police-post-hangu-pakistan-10-officers-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:18:41","slug":"deadly-attack-police-post-hangu-pakistan-10-officers-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/30\/deadly-attack-police-post-hangu-pakistan-10-officers-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Attack on Police Post in Hangu, Pakistan Kills 10 Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International media have reported that following a coordinated drone and ambush attack on a police post in the Hangu district of northwestern Pakistan, at least 10 police officers have lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, citing Zulfiqar Hameed, the police chief of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the assault began on Wednesday with the detonation of improvised explosive devices, after which the attackers stormed the police post. He stated that in the ensuing several-hour-long clash, 15 militants were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second major attack on Pakistan&#8217;s security forces in less than a week. A few days earlier, a suicide bombing in the Tank area killed 15 people, including 12 Pakistani army soldiers, with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claiming responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Hangu area lies along the border and has long been known as a hub for militant groups. Pakistan accuses the Islamic Emirate of providing safe haven to these groups, an allegation that the Emirate\u2019s officials deny, describing the issue as an internal matter for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 police officers were killed in a deadly coordinated drone and ambush attack on a police post in Hangu, Pakistan, with 15 militants also dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761","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=18761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}