2022 Siege of CTD Bannu | |||||||
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Part of the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
Special Service Group | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | 35[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3 killed[1] 15 wounded[1] | 25 killed[1] | ||||||
Location of Bannu Cantonment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
On 18 December 2022, the Pakistani Taliban carried out an attack on a counterterrorism centre in the Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They took the officers hostage until 20 December, when Pakistan's security forces lay siege to the centre, releasing all the hostages and killing 25 militants inside. Two officers were killed during the siege.[1]