Four martyred as militants attack security personnel in KP

TANK: Two completely different terrorist assaults in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa martyred 4 safety personnel and injured a number of others, Geo Information reported Friday.

At the least two safety personnel had been martyred and 7 others had been injured after terrorists attacked the Nala Joint Publish within the Khyber district of the province.

Through the assault, the terrorists used heavy weapons together with hand grenades.

In line with Hayatabad Medical Advanced Hospital administration, seven injured personnel of Frontier Constabulary have been shifted to the power, whose situation is claimed to be out of hazard.

The injured personnel have been admitted to neurosurgery, surgical and orthopaedic wards of the hospital.

Individually, at the least two policemen embraced martyrdom and three others sustained accidents in a terrorist assault in Police Strains in KP’s Tank district, Geo Information reported.

In line with police, the militants focused the police within the wee hours on Friday.

In retaliation, one terrorist was killed whereas Dera Street was closed for visitors, they stated, including {that a} search operation is underway within the space.

In line with hospital sources, the injured policemen have been shifted to a hospital.

The newest assaults come days after at the least 23 troopers embraced martyrdom and lots of others had been injured when six suicide bombers rammed an explosive-laden truck right into a army base within the troubled Daraban space of Dera Ismail Khan district early Tuesday, in accordance with safety officers.

“In early hours of December 12, 2023, a bunch of six terrorists attacked a safety forces submit within the Daraban space of Dera Ismail Khan. The try and enter the submit was successfully thwarted, which pressured the terrorists to ram an explosive-laden car into the submit, adopted by a suicide bombing assault. The ensuing blasts led to the collapse of the constructing, inflicting a number of casualties; twenty-three courageous troopers embraced shahadat, whereas all six terrorists had been successfully engaged and despatched to hell,” the Inter- Providers Public Relations (ISPR) said in an announcement.

A little bit-known militant group, Tehreek-e-Jihad-e-Pakistan (TJP), claimed accountability for one of many deadliest assaults on Pakistani safety forces.

Terror assaults in KP

The outgoing yr witnessed an alarming rise in terror-related incidents within the nation usually and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa particularly as at the least 470 safety personnel and civilians had been killed within the province, so for.

In line with statistics accessible with Geo Information, 470 individuals had been killed in 1,050 terror-related incidents in a single yr alone.

As per the file of the provincial residence division and tribal affairs, 698 safety personnel and residents had been killed in 1,823 terror-related incidents throughout the previous three years.

Seven areas alongside the Pak-Afghan border in KP remained “terrorism hotspots” throughout the outgoing yr. The areas embrace Peshawar, Khyber, North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Dera Ismail Khan, Bajaur and Tank.

Out of the 1,050 terror-related incidents, 419 had been reported in bandobasti, 631 within the erstwhile Fata, 201 in North Waziristan, 169 in Khyber, 121 in South Waziristan, 98 in DI Khan, 62 in Bajaur, 61 every in Tank and Peshawar.