Three police officers were killed and four others wounded on Saturday when unknown gunmen ambushed their vehicle in Diamer district, Gilgit-Baltistan (a mountainous Pakistani territory bordering China and India). The officers had just completed a two-day operation to destroy illegal poppy crops — grown in the area to produce opium — when attackers opened fire, sparking a gun battle that lasted several hours. Authorities declared a medical emergency in local hospitals and dispatched additional security forces to the site.