Gunmen kill three policemen in Peshawar

Policemen keep guard over an anti-American protest by truck drivers, who were forced to turn around with their supply trucks after the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was shut down to traffic, in Peshawar

Nine other policemen were also wounded in the attack.—Reuters photo

PESHAWAR: Police say about 100 militants have ambushed a police station in the northwestern city of Peshawar, shooting dead three officers.

Saeed Khan, a senior police official in the city, says the early Friday attack wounded another nine officers in the Sarband neighbourhood on the edge of the city.

He says Sarband borders the Khyber tribal region, an area where many insurgents live.

Khan says he doesn't know what group to which the shooters belong.

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