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Around 100 fighters have attacked a security checkpoint near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, sparking a three-hour clash that killed two police officers and 17 gunmen, police said.
The midnight attack on the Sangu Mera checkpoint comes amid Taliban threats to avenge the May 2 US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden near the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
However, it is more likely tied to the Pakistani military's offensives against anti-government fighters in the country’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's army has carried out operations in six of its seven tribal districts.
In a similar incident on Tuesday in Quetta, the capital of restive southwestern Baluchistan province, Pakistani troops killed five attackers including three women after a firefight.
The Al Jazeera correspondent said: "There have been some doubts cast over the whole incident in Quetta. There are reports that those people were not armed. There are questions whether the paramilitary forces overreacted and used excessive firepower. Details are still coming out."
The Pakistani Taliban said that their suicide bombers killed at least 76 people last week at a paramilitary academy in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
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Pakistani police commando standing guard on a street in Peshawar.
Al-Jazeera
