As many as ten policemen have been killed, six injured in an attack on a police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the Pakistan police said on Monday, Geo News reported.

As per the police, terrorists attacked the police station with heavy weapons at 3 am in the Daraban tehsil.

The injured have been shifted to DHQ Hospital, the police added, as per Geo News.

The terrorists attacked the police station from all sides with grenades and heavy gunfire.

The police retaliated but the terrorists escaped in the darkness of the night, the law enforcement agency added.