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PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday claimed to have killed 15 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel who were kidnapped earlier.
“We’ve taken our revenge,” said TTP Spokesperson Ihsanullah Ihsan.
District Officer FC Ali Sher Mehsud said that the bodies have been recovered and they are being kept at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Tal.
Fifteen FC personnel were abducted by the TTP on December 23 when several militants attacked their fort in Mullazai.
The militant outfit’s spokesperson claimed to have killed all of them.
Ihsan, speaking from an unknown location, said that the FC personnel were killed “as a consequence of an operation by security forces in Khyber Agency.”
Qari Kamran, a top TTP commander, was reportedly killed along with 12 other militants, while some women and children were also taken into custody by the security forces during the operation in the Karmana area of Landi Kotal.
Ihsan said that the bodies of the security personnel were near Shawa area in North Waziristan, while local sources said that there were reports of 13 bodies.
Security officials, though confirming the information of the dead bodies, did not comment further on the identities or the number of people killed.
In a written statement, the TTP said: “It was against Pashtoon tradition and culture that the women and children had been taken into custody.”
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