Pakistan: Jamaat-ul Ahrar taliban faction claims responsibility for Tangi courthouse attack
Taliban suicide attackers have struck a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people and injuring as many as 15.
The February 21 incident occurred at a region court in the town of Tangi, near the city of Peshawar.
The Jamaat-ul Ahrar faction of the Taliban issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, in which authorities said three armed militants wearing suicide vests attempted to enter the court building.
Police killed two of the attackers in a gunbattle, while the third managed to detonate his suicide vest at the entrance to the building.