Twenty-eight people were killed as hundreds of Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani check post on the Afghan border.

Twenty-eight people were killed as hundreds of Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani check post on the Afghan border.

AFP news agency quoted a senior official as saying that 23 policemen and five civilians were killed, among them two women, who died when mortar bombs fired by militants targeting the post landed in nearby houses.
 \"We have regained control of most of the area but fighting is still going on in some parts near the check post, which was attacked by around 500 Pakistani and Afghan Taliban,\" senior police official Qazi Jamil ur-Rehman told AFP.

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Officials said the militants targeted the Shaltalu checkpoint, surrounded by mountains and forest in the northwestern district of Upper Dir, about six kilometers from the border with Afghanistan\'s Kunar province.

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Rehman said more than 20 police personnel were wounded, but he had no information on casualties among the Taliban.
\"Frontier Corps (paramilitary) troops, army helicopters and artillery and police personnel are taking part in the operation,\" said Rehman.