Militants attack a security post in southwest Pakistan

Five militants attacked a security post in southwest Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday morning, triggering an intense shootout that left four soldiers, three attackers and a female passerby dead, officials said.
The newly-formed militant group Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, not providing further details.
Hours after the attack, Pakistan’s military said in a statement that “a group of terrorists launched a dastardly attack” in the garrison district of Zhob in the southwestern Baluchistan province. The “initial attempt of terrorists to sneak into the facility was checked by soldiers on duty,” it read. The shootout left three militants and four soldiers dead while five troopers were critically wounded.
The statement said security forces are tracking the two other militants who escaped.