7 killed in militants' attack in Pakistan PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- More than 300 militants attacked a small police checkpost in northwest Pakistan, killing seven people, including a senior police official, authorities said. The attack Sunday night in the Matani area outside Peshawar injured 12 others, Dawn reported. Police and a local paramilitary force personnel engaged the heavily armed attackers in a 3-hour gunfight, the report said. Two other policemen and four members of the paramilitary force were killed, Dawn said. The militants fled after ransacking the facility, setting it on fire and destroying weapons and vehicles, the report said. Casualties among the militants were not immediately known, Dawn said.