Pakistan raid kills all Taliban hostage-takers, officials say

Security officials on a blocked road leading to the counter-terrorism centre (Muhammad Hasib/AP))

Pakistan’s special forces raided a police centre in a remote north-western district on Tuesday, killing all Pakistani Taliban militants who had earlier this week overpowered guards at the facility, seized arms and taken hostages, officials said.

The swift operation was successful, according to security and intelligence officials, but it was not immediately clear how many Taliban were killed – or how many officers had been held by the hostage-takers at the centre in Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, since the brazen takeover on Sunday.