PESHAWAR: Militants attacked police posts in Pakistan's northwest and killed two civilians active in an anti-Taliban militia, police said Wednesday.
A group of militants first killed two members of a militia in the Adezai area of Peshawar as they headed to pray at a mosque late Tuesday, said Liaqat Ali Khan, Peshawar police chief.
In the hours after, dozens of militants from the Khyber tribal region attacked police posts in the Sarband area of Peshawar. The two sides exchanged fire for about an hour before the militants retreated to Khyber, Khan said.
He said several militants were killed, but there were no police casualties.
The clashes suggest insurgents are not abandoning their campaign against the state despite the flooding that has affected some 20 million people — or one in nine Pakistanis.
''As the police force is busy in rescue and relief work for flood affectees, militants tried to take advantage of the situation to attack Peshawar, but the police force was fully alert and vigilant,'' Khan said.
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