MILITANTS have attacked a security post in north-west Pakistan and killed 10 officers in a gun battle, police said today.

Other security personnel were wounded in the overnight attack in Dera Ismail Khan, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police official Abdul Rauf.

He said the assailants had suffered casualties but had fled along with their dead and injured accomplices when authorities dispatched reinforcements to the security post in the town of Draban.