A minimum of six Pakistani troopers and 4 terrorists have been killed on Tuesday when the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants attacked a convoy of safety forces within the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in line with the army.
The assault occurred within the Asman Manza space of the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan when armed TTP militants opened hearth at a convoy, killing six troopers, Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR), the army’s media wing, mentioned.
The ISPR mentioned that 4 terrorists have been killed in retaliatory hearth, whereas two have been injured.
The banned TTP has accepted accountability for the assault.
A “sanitisation operation” is underway within the space to remove another terrorists, the assertion mentioned.
The TTP was arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007.
Not too long ago, Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorist actions orchestrated by the banned terror outfit.
Final month, two policemen have been killed and as many injured when TTP militants attacked a police checkpoint within the nation’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
On January 30, a Pakistan Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up throughout the afternoon prayers in a mosque in Peshawar, killing 101 folks and injuring greater than 200 others.
In February, TTP militants stormed the Karachi Police chief’s workplace in Pakistan’s most populous metropolis, sparking gunfire that killed three rebels and 4 others, together with two police constables.
The outfit, which is believed to be near Al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on army bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Resort in Islamabad.
The TTP additionally orchestrated the heinous Military Public College assault in Peshawar in 2014, through which over 130 college students have been killed.
