Terrorist attack on police station in Pakistan kills several

In the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, armed terrorists stormed a police station and killed several officers. In addition to at least two police officers and a civilian, three of the attackers were also killed in the act on Friday evening (local time), the police said. 13 security forces were injured. The terrorists had taken several officials temporarily hostage, a police officer said. Explosions and gunfire could be heard from the building. The militant Islamist Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Since the Pakistani Taliban canceled a ceasefire with the government in Islamabad at the end of last year, they have claimed responsibility for several attacks. The attacks are often aimed at security forces. Authorities say the Taliban are also responsible for an attack on a mosque in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar that recently killed 84 people, most of them police officers. The Pakistani Taliban are independent of the Islamist Taliban government in neighboring Afghanistan.