{"id":23476,"date":"2026-10-07T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/gun-attack-on-police-checkpoint-repelled-in-kohat-seven-officers-wounded\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:00:17","slug":"gun-attack-on-police-checkpoint-repelled-in-kohat-seven-officers-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/gun-attack-on-police-checkpoint-repelled-in-kohat-seven-officers-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun attack on police checkpoint repelled in Kohat, seven officers wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Geo News TV reported on Wednesday, citing Kohat police chief Muzaffar Iqbal, that an armed attack on a police security checkpoint in the city\u2019s Shadipur area was repelled.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iqbal, seven police personnel were wounded in the attackers\u2019 firing and were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Kohat police chief said police forces returned fire, forcing the attackers to retreat and flee the area.<\/p>\n<p>He added that police had launched a search operation in the area to identify and arrest the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven police officers were wounded after an armed attack on a police checkpoint in Kohat was repelled, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23476","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\/23476","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=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}