Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police center

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Pakistani Taliban overpower guards, seize police centerPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Several Pakistani Taliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism center in northwestern Pakistan overnight, snatching police weapons, taking hostages and seizing control of the facility, officials said Monday.Pakistani officials later confirmed that one counter-terrorism officer was killed during the takeover at the detention center in Bannu, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and part of a former tribal region.Few other details emerged about the takeover, which apparently happened while police were interrogating the Taliban detainees, according to Mohammad Ali Saif, a spokesman for the provincial government.However, he said the “government will not accept any demands of the terrorists” who were being asked by authorities to surrender.Initially, the hostage-takers demanded in a video message posted on social media that they be airlifted to Afghanistan but Khurasani said that demand had been made by mistake, since the TTP fighters were not aware — due to their prolonged detention — that the group now “enjoys control in some” parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, near the Afghan border."

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