Peshawar, Oct 17 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed to have killed 17 personnel of Pakistani forces and injured 18 others in multiple operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in a span of three days starting October 14.
The biggest among them took place in South Waziristan where TTP claims to have killed 9 Pakistani soldiers and injured 5 while countering an attack by the military in Pani Khel in Zarmilna.
According to TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani, light and heavy weapons were used by its fighters in “response to an attempt by the impure army to raid the Mujahideen”.
He said one military vehicle was also completely destroyed in the clash besides the casualties suffered by the Pakistani forces.
A Pakistan Army soldier was killed and two were injured in a guerrilla operation on a military post located in Anzare in Sararogha in South Waziristan, Khorasani said.
He said there was a strong possibility of casualties among the “anti-Sharia army” of Pakistan in three guerrilla attacks at military installations at three different places in Zarmilna, Shaktoi and Tiarza in South Waziristan.
Three Pakistani military personnel were killed and 4 injured in a three-side attack on a police station in Jenkor in Peshawar district, the spokesman said.
There is a strong possibility of casualties in a guerrilla operation in Karbala in Peshawar district, he said.
In Tank district, 4 military personnel were killed and 7, including Captain Hassan Salahuddin, were seriously injured in an attack on a fort in Omar Khan Killi area, he said.
In Bannu district, TTP fighters entered a military post in Domail area and killed and injured several officers, the spokesman said.
TTP also carried out a mortar and drone attack on the city police station in Tank district, in which there is a strong possibility of casualties and property loss, he said. (NVI)
