ISLAMABAD: Four militants were killed and two policemen injured when police in Pakistan's east Punjab province repelled a terrorist attack, an official statement said.
The incident happened on Sunday in the Mianwali district of the province, where some 20 militants stormed a police station, the district's police said in a statement.
The police inside the station were alert, and because of its prompt response, "the terrorists' plot was foiled, and they fled the scene, " reports Xinhua news agency, citing the statement.
The attack triggered a fire exchange between the two sides in which the militants were killed, it said.
Police took custody of the bodies, and an investigation is underway to probe their identities.