Pakistani Taliban detainees seize police centre

Security officials stand guard on a blocked road leading to a counter-terrorism centre where several Pakistani Taliban detainees have taken police officers and others hostage (AP)

Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at a counter-terrorism centre in north-western Pakistan, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility, officials have said.

The militants at the detention centre in Bannu, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and part of a former tribal region, also took police and others inside the compound hostage, a local government spokesman said.