At least three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel lost their lives in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in North Waziristan's Ghulam Khan area on Sunday.
The FC personnel
were on routine patrol when an IED targeting their vehicle exploded,
sources within the political administration told that According
to Inter-Services Public Relations, the IED exploded as an FC bomb
disposal team was undertaking a routine search and clearance operation
in the area.
The martyred FC soldiers were identified by ISPR as Naik Inayatullah Khattak, Sepoy Mohsin Ali Turi and Sepoy Sifatullah.
According
to the sources, a curfew was announced in the Ghulam Khan area — which
is near the Pak-Afghan border — as a result of the explosion.
Security forces have started a search for the perpetrators of the explosion.
Uptick in IED attacks
On December 5, six people were killed and eight others injured after an IED went off near an army vehicle in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
In
a similar incident on Dec 1, five people, including the head of a peace
committee, were killed and two others were injured in an IED blast in
South Waziristan Agency.
According to officials, peace
committee commander Wali Jan Mehsud was on his way to attend a jirga
along with his brother Ahmad Jan and tribal elders when an IED device
had gone off near his vehicle in Spinkai.
