Peshawar, Dec 24 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today said it killed at least 9 Pakistani soldiers and injured several more as it carried out seven operations at various places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province over the last two days.
The TTP operations included 2 in Karak district, and one each in Khyber district, North Waziristan Province, Bannu, Orakzai and Tank district.
The biggest among the attacks was in Karak district, where five Pakistani soldiers were killed in an ambush on a patrol party in Gargri area of Banda Dawood Shah yesterday, according to TTP spokesman Mohammad Khorasani.
He said a vehicle carrying the soldiers was completely destroyed in the attack after which TTP seized 5 guns and other equipment from the slain military personnel.
Suggesting that it was a revenge strike, Khorasani pointed out it was the same area where TTP lost its three cadres in a military drone attack some time back.
He identified the killed Pakistani soldiers as Shahid Iqbal, Safdar, Samiullah, Arif, driver Muhammad Abrar.
In Khyber district, three military personnel were killed and two injured in an ambush on two check posts in Momandri in Bara area, he said.
One soldier was killed in a sniper attack on an army post in Kalai area of Orakzai district, he said.
In Tank district, a Police Constable Shakirullah was injured in a targeted attack last evening, the TTP spokesman said.
In other attacks too, there is a strong possibility of casualties but the numbers were not confirmed, he said.
Giving details, he said, two days ago, the Pakistan Army attempted a raid in Takht Nusrat from two sides of Lakki Marwat and Karak, but the TTP retaliated in a timely manner.
The armed clash lasted five hours and there were reports of enemy casualties, Khorasani said.
In North Waziristan, a Pakistan Army convoy was ambushed by TTP near Hasokhel in Mir Ali district, the spokesman said.
He added that there was a strong possibility of casualties among the soldiers as three military vehicles were partially destroyed in the ambush.
There is also a strong possibility of several soldiers being killed and injured in a mortar attack by TTP on the military in Sardi Khel area of Bakakhel district last night, the spokesman said. (NVI)
