TTP says it killed and injured 35 Pakistani soldiers in multiple attacks

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

Peshawar, Dec 28 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) tonight claimed to have killed and injured at least 35 Pakistani military personnel in multiple attacks across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.

The maximum damage was caused to the Pakistani military in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province where TTP claimed to have killed and injured more than 25 personnel of the government forces in fierce clashes in Takhti Khel in Norang on December 26, according to TTP spokesman Mohammad Khorasani.

He said TTP also lost 4 comrades in these clashes.

Two Pakistani military personnel were killed and three injured in a TTP attack on Zam Qila (Fort), which housed a post of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC), in Tank district during the intervening night of December 26 and 27, he said.

More personnel were killed and injured in an ambush on an FC convoy carrying the wounded in the morning of December 27, he said.

A Pakistani soldier was killed and a security camera was destroyed in an attack on Kot Azam FC picket in Gomal in Tank district, the TTP spokesman said.

In Khyber district, a soldier was killed in a sniper attack on an army post in Tirah Pabikhel in Bara on December 26.

Three soldiers were killed in an ambush on a military convoy between Tirah Pirmila and Parak Bangla in Khyber district on December 23, he said.

In North Waziristan, a military drone was shot down in Qami Khel in Spin Wam, Khorasani said. (NVI)