3 security personnel killed in terror attack in Pakistan

Peshawar, August 19

Three Pakistani security personnel were killed after militants, from the Afghanistan side, launched a major attack at a border security post in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province on Monday, security authorities said.

The attack comes a day after four security personnel were killed in two separate terror attacks in the same province.

During the early hours of Monday, the militants targeted a Pakistani border security post in the Wara Mamund area in Bajaur district on the Pak-Afghan border in the KPK province.

The ensuing gun battle resulted in the deaths of three Pakistani security personnel, the sources said, adding that the attack took place in the Gardo sector.

Earlier on Sunday, a policeman and a station house officer (SHO) were killed after militants attacked the Bargai police station in the militancy-affected southern Lakki Marwat district of the same province with heavy weaponry.

The policeman died on the spot, while the injured SHO, who had sustained multiple bullet wounds during the exchange of fire, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.

The militants took refuge in a house close to the police station before the attack, sources said.

In another incident on Sunday, at least two Frontier Constabulary security personnel were killed and three others were injured when militants ambushed their convoy in the Maddi area of Dera Ismail Khan district in the KPK province, police officials said.

There has been an uptick in terror incidents across Pakistan, especially in the KPK province, over the last two years since the Taliban-led dispensation took control of Afghanistan.

Pakistan has consistently asked the Taliban-led interim Afghanistan Government to ensure effective border management and deny the use of Afghan soil to terrorists.