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A hostage situation is underway at the Bannu cantonment in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Taliban militants seized a police station and took hostages on Sunday.
Islamist militants seized a counter-terrorism center in the northwestern Pakistani area of Bannu on Sunday and took hostages, officials said.
At the Bannu cantonment in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hostages are being held by Taliban militants after they captured a police station on Sunday.
Islamist militants took hostages at a counter-terrorism centre in the northwestern Pakistani area of Bannu on Sunday. They were looking to negotiate with government authorities for a safe passage to neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said. "It's not clear if the terrorists attacked from outside, or if they snatched the ammunition from staff inside" while they were being interrogated following their arrest, Bannu police spokesman Muhammad Naseeb told Reuters. Security forces have surrounded the compound, Naseeb said.
The militants overran the prison in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan. They claim to have freed dozens of rebels and taken 10 security staff hostage.