Six killed in attack on Hungarian firm in Pakistan

Six Pakistan security personnel were killed in an overnight siege by dozens of militants on a Hungarian-owned oil and gas exploration site, police said Tuesday (May 23).

Six Pakistan security personnel were killed in an overnight siege by dozens of militants on a Hungarian-owned oil and gas exploration site, police said Tuesday (May 23).

About 50 fighters attacked a site owned by the Budapest-headquartered MOL Group around midnight in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, district police chief Asif Bahadur told AFP.

"They were armed with light and heavy weapons and fired mortar shells, killing six security personnel at the main entrance" to the remote site near the Afghan border, said Bahadur.

He said the dead included four members of paramilitary police assistance force the Frontier Constabulary and two Pakistani private security guards for the firm.

"The exchange of fire continued for more than an hour. Police forced the militants to flee," Bahadur added.