GHALLANI: Three Frontier Corps personnel were
martyred when Afghanistan-based militants attacked a
border security post in
Mohmand Agency on Friday, officials said.
"The terrorists fired from across the
border on the Frontier Corps (FC) troops busy in construction of new
border post at Shunkrai near Pak-Afghan
border in
Mohmand Agency. Three FC soldiers - Havaldar Munir Khan, Lance Naik Irshad Hussain and Sepoy Haq Nawaz Khan - embraced shahadat," said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) through a statement.
The protection party, it said, responded and killed five terrorists and caused injuries to another five. "The fleeing terrorists were seen carrying back bodies and the injured. Pakistan is paying price of Afghan forces' lack of capacity and ungoverned spaces on Afghan side of the border," it added.
The officials of political administration said that the militants attacked the Shunkrai Kandao
border post early in the morning.
They said that three personnel of the Swat Scouts, which is a wing of the paramilitary FC, were
martyred in the attack.They said that the security forces returned the fire. They said attackers fled to Afghanistan after the exchange of fire.
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