{"id":7164,"date":"2026-02-17T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/deadly-attacks-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-14-dead-25-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:30:08","slug":"deadly-attacks-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-14-dead-25-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/deadly-attacks-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-14-dead-25-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Leave 14 Dead, 25 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fresh wave of attacks in northwest Pakistan, at least 11 security personnel and three civilians, including a child, were killed, and 25 others were injured. These incidents resulted from two explosions and an armed clash in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the French news agency AFP, citing a Pakistani security official, on Monday evening a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into the wall of a religious seminary in the Bajaur tribal area. The blast killed eight police officers inside the school and wounded 10 others.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the explosion&#8217;s intensity caused the roofs of several nearby houses to collapse, resulting in the death of a child. Security officials have warned that the number of casualties could rise.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate attack in Bannu city, a bomb planted in a vehicle exploded at the Miryan police station. The incident claimed the lives of two civilians and injured 17 others.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Shangla district, during a security forces search operation, three police officers and three militants were killed in an armed encounter. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police stated in a release that the militants killed in this clash had previously been involved in attacks against Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, located along the border with Afghanistan, has witnessed increased armed attacks and insecurity in recent years, raising concerns about security in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly attacks in northwest Pakistan\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kill 14, injure 25, involving bombings and armed clashes targeting security forces and civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7164","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\/7164","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=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}