Peshawar, Nov 13: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) tonight claimed to have killed and injured 24 personnel of Pakistani forces in an ambush on a convoy in Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
TTP ambushed a 5-vehicle police convoy led by DSP Haider Zaman in Gambat Darbukach area of Kohat from a distance of 10 meters, its spokesman Muhammad Khorasani said in a statement.
All the police vehicles in the convoy came under the siege of the Mujahideen, in which two dozen personnel including DSP Haider Zaman, SHO Ayaz Afridi and ASI Mukhtiar Ahmed were killed and injured, he said.
Two police vehicles were destroyed in the attack while one vehicle was captured, he said.
At least 20 personnel surrendered, the spokesman said, adding the Mujahideen, on the instructions of the elders, demonstrated war principles and high morals and allowed the injured and surrendered police personnel to leave the area in 2 police vehicles.
He said TTP seized a police vehicle, 29 guns with 85 magazines and other military resources.
All the Mujahideen were safe in the operation, Khorasani said. (NVI)
