PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s remote South Waziristan District close to the porous border with Taliban-run Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three security personnel.
According to Deputy Commissioner Rehan Gul Khattak, one security guard and a police officer were shot during the attack, while two security personnel, a police officer, and a civilian chose martyrdom. The hospital in Miranshah received the injured and martyred. The suicide bomber detonated himself, according to DC Khattak, while being routinely frisked at a checkpoint manned by several security personnel and local police.
This is the second attack by terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in two days.
Meanwhile, The security forces on Wednesday killed six terrorists actively involved in hostile activities against the forces, extortion and target killing of innocent civilians during an intelligence based operation (IBO) conducted on their reported presence in general area Kot Azam of South Waziristan District.
According to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release, the terrorists were killed in an intense exchange of fire during the conduct of operation that occurred between security forces and terrorists.
The weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorists who remained actively involved in terrorist activities.
The sanitization of the area was being carried out to eliminate terrorists found in the area.
The locals of the area appreciated the operation and expressed their full support to eliminate the menace of terrorism, it said.
A day earlier, a horde of militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) struck a private exploration company’s gas plant in Tall tehsil of Hangu district, KP, and martyred at least four Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel and two private security guards, police had said.
Irfan Khan, DSP Tall, told a foreign news agency that terrorists raided the two wells — M-8 and M-10 — with heavy weapons including rocket-propelled grenades.
“The security guards at M-8 repulsed the terrorists’ attack but the casualties took place at M-10,” said Khan.
Khan, while talking to media, said the militants also damaged a solar power plant at the gas well before fleeing to adjoining North Waziristan, where they had come from.
