7 people including 2 security personnel killed in terror attack in Pakistan

At least seven people, including two security personnel and two minors, were killed in a terrorist attack on a rural health centre in Pakistan's unruly northwest on Tuesday, the army said.

The terrorists attacked the Rural Health Centre (RHC), Kirri Shamozai in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistan Army's media wing said.

The civilians who lost their lives in the gun attack were the staff of RHC, including two women health workers and a watchman of the facility, besides the two minors.

The security forces in the vicinity were immediately mobilised for clearance operation in RHC and in the ensuing fire exchange, two troops effectively engaged the terrorists and killed them.

This is the second terrorist attack in 24 hours as eight soldiers were killed while trying to foil a terrorist infiltration into Bannu Cantonment in the wee hours of Monday.

At least eight soldiers of the Pakistan Army and 10 terrorists were killed when a group of 10 terrorists attacked a