6 Pakistani troopers killed in militant assault in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Occasions of India

At the least six Pakistani safety personnel have been killed and 7 wounded on Saturday in an change of fireside with militants within the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Armed males killed six Pakistani safety personnel and wounded seven in a checkpoint assault within the nation’s northwest, a police official instructed information company AP.
The incident occurred in the identical area the place sectarian clashes have killed a minimum of 130 individuals through the previous few weeks.
A ceasefire between the world’s Sunni and Shiite communities is holding and Saturday’s incident shouldn’t be linked to the latest clashes, in keeping with AP.
Native official Saleem Khan mentioned armed males attacked a Frontier Corps checkpoint in Bagam, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Peshawar metropolis. The wounded have been taken to a army hospital. There was no speedy declare of duty for the assault.
Final month, separatists fired on a paramilitary border submit in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, killing seven troopers, native authorities mentioned Saturday, every week after the identical militant group killed 26 individuals at a railway station.
“Round 40 to 50 armed terrorists attacked a border submit manned by the Frontier Corps Balochistan in Kalat district, killing seven troopers and wounding 15 others,” an area official instructed AFP on situation of anonymity.
The BLA regularly claims lethal assaults towards safety forces or Pakistanis from different provinces, notably Punjabis. Militants have focused vitality initiatives with overseas financing — most notably from China — accusing outsiders of exploiting the resource-rich area whereas excluding residents within the poorest a part of the nation.