PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – Security forces have killed at least 17 militants in different parts of North Waziristan, local media reported.
At least two security forces personnel were killed and another was injured when militants attacked a check post in Ghulam Khan area on Friday.
Five suspected militants were killed in retaliatory action, a security forces official confirmed.
Officials stated that the attack was massive, and militants used modern and heavy weaponry.
After the attack, the security forces cordoned off the area and started a massive search operation in NWA. Other than five militants that were killed during an attack on army check post, security forces killed 12 militants in different areas of North Waziristan.
The dead personnel of Touchi Scouts were identified as Naik Qasam and Jawan Tariq. After the attack, the injured, Fahad Mehdi Shah was airlifted from the site to Miranshah.
Soon after the attack, security forces cordoned off the area and conducted a search operation.
Earlier this month, a militant was killed and two security forces personnel were injured in a search operation carried out by Frontier Corps in the Mashky area of Balochistan’s embattled district Awaran .
According to a Frontier Corps spokesperson, acting on a tip off security forces carried out the search operation in Aspait area of Mashky in Awaran district against the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front.
