Summary Militants attacked army camp in Serai Naurang at 3:45am on Saturday.
PESHAWAR: Militants attacked an army camp in northwestern Pakistan with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades before dawn on Saturday, killing at least thirteen members of the security forces.
The raid on the army camp in Serai Naurang town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province began around 3:45 a.m. local time and lasted for several hours, said senior police officer Arif Khan Wazir.
The militants were armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades and also seemed to include suicide bombers, he said.
Twelve militants were also killed, the official said.
It was reported that a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a house near the army camp, killing at least ten people.
TTP spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location. He said four suicide bombers were involved in the attack. He said that three of them were killed and the fourth is still resisting.
Ahsan said the attack was in retaliation for the recent deaths of two Taliban commanders in U.S. drone strikes. He accused the Pakistani army of helping with the attacks.
The attack followed a suicide bombing at a mosque in Hangu on Friday that killed 27 people and wounded more than 50.
