TTP claims killing of 10 Pakistani soldiers, including an Army Major in multiple attacks

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Fighters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). File Pic

Peshawar, Oct 10 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) tonight claimed to have killed 10 Pakistani security personnel, including an Army Major, and injured at least 11 in multiple attacks, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The biggest attack was carried out in Daraban area of Dera Ismail Khan district, in which 7 Pakistani Army personnel, including Major Sibtain, were killed and 5 injured.

This was actually a counter-offensive by the TTP after the Army carried out an attack on them, its spokesman Muhammad Khorasani said.

The TTP lost its 3 cadres in the gunfight, he said.

In another incident in Kalachi, the TTP fighters attacked Khati check post on the Doraban Road with laser guns and Kalashnikovs, etc. last night, the spokesman said.

In this assault, the check post in-charge Ahmed Nawaz and a policeman were killed, and 4 policemen were injured, he added.

One soldier of Frontier Corps (FC) was killed in an attack on the Samana Sangar Fort in Ghaljo in Orakzai district, Khorasani said.

A soldier was injured in the Shabuzai in Shaktoi district in an attack on Wednesday (October 8), he said.

In Toragola in Azam Warsak, an attack was carried out on the Pakistan Army with light and heavy weapons and there is likelihood of casualties and property damage in it, the spokesman said.

In Bara district, an army soldier was injured in a sniper attack at Tirah Shalubar Warsak Nakai post.

Unspecified number of casualties were also caused in a Grenade Launcher attack on a security post in Manro Zangal in Mahmond district on Wednesday night. (NVI)