Police gun down 5 militants during shootout in NW Pakistan

Police in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city killed five militants during an exchange of fire in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police launched a search operation in the provincial capital of the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on a tip-off regarding presence of suspected militants, a CTD spokesman told media.

An exchange of fire was triggered off when the policemen tried to enter a hideout of the suspected militants during the operation, leaving all the five militants killed, but no loss of life was reported on the police side, according to the spokesman.

Police later recovered arms and explosives including suicide vests and hand grenades from the hideout.

The identities of the killed militants and the name of the militant group they were associated with have not been revealed by police yet.