Soldier killed in Tirah blast

BARA: One soldier was killed and three others sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Tirah valley in Khyber Agency, official sources said on Friday. They said that the security forces were on a routine patrol in Sandana area in Tirah when the IED planted by the

By our correspondents
October 31, 2015
BARA: One soldier was killed and three others sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Tirah valley in Khyber Agency, official sources said on
Friday.
They said that the security forces were on a routine patrol in Sandana area in Tirah when the IED planted by the militants on the road went off.The officials said that four soldiers were injured in the blast and were taken to a hospital, where one of them succumbed to his injuries.
The injured soldiers were identified as Sattar, Zafar and Saqib. It may be recalled that the security forces carried out the Operation Khyber-1 and Khyber-2 against the outlawed Lashkar-i-Islam and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to flush out the militants from Bara and Tirah valley in Khyber tribal region.
The security forces have driven out most of the militants from Tirah, but they are operating from their safe havens near the Pak-Afghan border.Though such attacks are usually blamed on the militants, no group claimed responsibility for the blast.