{"id":22856,"date":"2026-09-28T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/gunmen-ambush-traffic-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:04","slug":"gunmen-ambush-traffic-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/gunmen-ambush-traffic-police-khyber-pakhtunkhwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen ambush kills three traffic police in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani officials say armed men ambushed traffic police in the Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing three officers. Two passersby were also wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s interior ministry said the attack took place on Monday and that the injured were taken to hospital for treatment. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen a rise in militant attacks in recent months. According to data from the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, the province recorded 54 attacks last month alone, a 50% increase compared with July.<\/p>\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is located in northwestern Pakistan along the border with Afghanistan, an area long regarded as one of the most vulnerable to insecurity and armed attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen ambushed traffic police in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing three officers and wounding two passersby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22856","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\/22856","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=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}