TTP kills 13 Pakistani security men, injures several in attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Special squad of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) undergoing training. (File Pic)

Peshawar, Dec 30 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has killed 13 Pakistani military and police personnel and injured several in multipe attacks across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, according to the outfit.

The biggest among the attacks was carried out in Bajaur district, where a military convoy was ambushed in Inam Khoro Chengai in Wada Mahmond, according to TTP spokesman Mohammad Khorasani.

Four personnel of Pakistan Army, including a Major, were killed in the attack in which two military vehicles were destroyed, Khorasani said.

Another big attack was carried out in Karak district, where a joint team of Pakistan Army and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police was ambushed in Bande Dawood Shah, he said.

Three personnel of the government forces were killed and three were injured in the attack, he said, adding two Army vehicles and a Tank were destroyed in the operation.

The joint team was proceeding to carry out a raid in Shaheedan Kali, the spokesman said.

In North Waziristan, two military personnel were killed and several others were injured in an ambush on a military convoy at Abelanki in Dosli.

One vehicle was completely destroyed and others were damaged in the attack, the TTP spokesman said.

An unspecified number of military personnel were also killed and injured in TTP ambush on a convoy on the Teti Madakhel Road in the Abakhel area of Spin Wam in North Waziristan, he said in a statement.

The army contingent was surrounded during the operation, but the surviving military personnel were allowed to flee to protect the general population, Khorasani said.

In district Tank, a policeman was killed in an attack in Nasraniwala, he said.

Another policeman — Assistant Sub-Inspector Mumtaz Ali — was killed in a separate targeted attack in the same district.

An official of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI was killed in an attack on the main road of Naje Pezo in Tank district, the spokesman said.

One Pakistani military official was killed and one was injured in sniper attacks on two military posts in Akakhel Khongi in Bara in Khyber district, he said. (NVI)