Peshawar, May 15: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today said it killed and injured at least 100 Pakistani soldiers in a major attack on a Pakistani military camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province last night.
The camp in Loi Mahmand area of Bajaur district was struck by several heavily-armed TTP men, including suicide attackers.
The attack began with a vehicle laden with explosives hitting the entrance gate of the Damangi Scouts, following which several TTP men stormed the complex and indulged in indiscriminate firing on the soldiers inside.
TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani today said the attack went on till late into the night.
In a statement, he said the attack was initiated by Abu Dujana Taqbalullah, a fighter of TTP’s ‘Special Istishadi Force (SIF), who blew up a vehicle driven by him and laden with explosives at the gate of the military premises.
“After that, a group of Istishadi Mujahideen entered the complex,” he said.
The word ‘Istishadi’ is an Arabic term, meaning ‘a man on suicide mission’.
The spokesman said “at least a 100 security personnel were killed and injured” in the attack.
“The arms depot and vehicles in the camp were also burnt to ashes, while the Mujahideen also took a large amount of weapons and other equipment with them,” Khorasani said.
In the attack, besides Taqbalullah, TTP lost another fighter — Hunain Taqbalullah, the spokesman said, adding the rest of the Mujahideen reached their safe places safely. (NVI)
