DTN News - OSAMA BIN LADEN NEWS / PAKISTAN NEWS: Pakistan Taliban Attacks Security Forces To Avenge Osama bin Laden Death....NSI News Source Info # 1963**Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / PESHAWAR, Pakistan - May 18, 2011: More than 70 militants armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the latest in an upsurge of violence since Osama bin Laden was killed in the country this month.
Pakistani police officers ride horses in front of relatives of one of two officers, who were killed in an attack by militants at a security checkpoint, carrying his body during his funeral procession in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Dozens of militants bearing rocket-propelled grenades attacked a key security checkpoint near the Pakistani city of Peshawar early Wednesday, sparking a three-hour clash that killed two police officers and 15 insurgents, police said. (Photo - AP)
Two members of the security forces and at least 15 insurgents were killed in a four-hour gunbattle that erupted following two successive attacks on the security post set up to defend Peshawar, the gateway to the troubled northwest region.
"They were well-armed. They had heavy weapons, rockets, mortars everything. The fighting lasted for about four and a half hours," Ejaz Khan, a city police officer, said.
The attack took place near Khyber, part of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which is regarded as a global hub of militants, including al Qaeda and the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban movements.
Two members of the security forces were killed and five wounded, Khan said. At least 15 insurgents were killed.
Security forces repulsed the first attack by the militants which was carried out just before midnight, officials said.
"Then they carried out a big attack early in the morning. We also called in reinforcements to counter the attack and we did it," a Peshawar security official said.
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