PESHAWAR -UNS: More than four terrorists killed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and security forces on Saturday — allegedly belonging to the militant Islamic State group — in a mountainous area near the Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan.
According to a CTD press release, the terrorists from the group’s Khorasan chapter (IS-K) were killed in retaliatory fire by a team conducting an intelligence-based joint operation upon receiving a tip-off that the terrorists were crossing the border.
The CTD stated that two hand grenades, two Kalashnikov rifles, six magazine storages, two pistols and dozens of cartridges along with Pakistani currency, identification documents and other valuables were recovered from the terrorists.
Among the slain terrorists were the IS-K’s local commander Mohammad Dawood Yaqoob, Abdullah Khan and Mohammad Laiq Piauddin. A fourth terrorist could not be identified.
The militants, the CTD said, were wanted for being involved in several targeted killings, bomb blasts and attacks on security forces.
It also mentioned that two of the terrorists managed to cross the border and escaped.
