Militants kill 6 Pakistani security men in northwest Pakistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, March 4, IRNA -- Six Pakistani security men were killed in attack by suspected Taliban militants on Thursday in Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
Three other personnel of government militia were also injured when the militants ambushed convoy of forces in Khyber agency bordering Afghanistan.
Official sources in political administration informed that convoy of the militia called as ‘Khasadar Force’ was moving from a duty post when the militants fired at them at Alamgod area.
Officials said that six security men died at the scene and three others were injured. The injured were shifted to a local hospital.
Assistant Political Agent, Bara Abdul Hadi, blamed the militant groups in the region for the attack.
The security forces started a search operation shortly after the attack but the militants fled after the incident.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP and several other militant groups are active in Khyber agency, also a key supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The militants regularly attack NATO supplies trucks in Khyber agency and also on Thursday an oil tanker was attacked in the same region.
Official sources say that militants from other tribal regions and Swat valley have fled to Khyber agency and are planning attacks there.
In December, a senior and most wanted Taliban commander from Swat, Ibn-e-Amin, was killed along with several other militants in a US drone strike in Tirah valley of Khyber agency.
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