21 bodies of Pakistani tribal police officers were found on Saturday night two days after they were abducted during a raid that was linked to the Taliban.
During the raid Taliban militants captured 23 officers and killed two security officers. Naveed Akbar Khan, a top political official from the area said to CNN that the 21 police officers were shot and killed in Kohi Hassakhel.
Akbar Khan also said to the Associated Press that the bodies were found after midnight after they were notified by a policeman who escaped. Khan said that another police man was found seriously injured.
"The 23 policemen went missing before dawn Thursday when militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons attacked two posts in Frontier Region Peshawar. Two policemen were also killed in the attacks," reported The AP.
The militants killed the policeman on a cricket pitch in a line, a local official told the AP anonymously. Thus far there has not been a group that has claimed any responsibility to the brutal killings. The AP reported that the Pakistani Taliban, however are suspected because they have been trying to plan an insurgency against the government for a few years.
On Saturday the AP reported that an explosion also occurred at a bus in Karachi which killed six people and hurt 52. Some of the victims were in critical condition.
On Saturday, an explosion ripped through a passenger bus at a terminal in the southern city of Karachi, killing six people and wounding 52 others, some of whom were in critical condition, said Seemi Jamali, a doctor at the hospital where the victims were being treated.
"Police were trying to determine whether the blast, which reduced the bus to a charred skeleton, was caused by a bomb or a gas canister that exploded, said police spokesman Imran Shaukat. Many buses in Pakistan run on natural gas," reported the AP.
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