Daraban police station attack | |
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Part of the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
Location | Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Coordinates | 31°43′58″N 70°19′54″E / 31.73278°N 70.33167°E |
Date | 12 December 2023 |
Target | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police; Pakistan Army |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming, suicide bombing, mass shooting |
Weapons | Car bomb, guns |
Deaths | 24 (including a perpetrator) |
Injured | 34 |
Perpetrators | Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan |
On 12 December 2023, the Deobandi jihadist insurgent group Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan attacked a police station in Daraban, Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing at least 23 people.