officials said that the officerhad been receiving Taliban death threats for some time.

A female police constable was killed along with other five relatives, when militants armed with rockets and rifles raided her house in Pakistan’s troubled northwest early Friday, officials said.

Local police official Fazal Hussain said about a dozen militants armed with rockets, hand grenades and assault rifles raided the house at 3:30am (22:30GMT), first launching a rocket before barging into the house and opening fire.

The officer Shamshad Begum, targeted in the pre-dawn attack in Tootkas town, in the district of Hangu, had been receiving Taliban death threats for some time, senior administration official Khalid Khan told AFP news agency.

Begum was killed along with her two sons and one daughter, and two sisters of her husband. Two other sons and one daughter were wounded in the attack.