Five security personnel injured in Mohmand Agency IED explosions

A security convoy was patrolling in Alingar area when it was hit by two consecutive blasts on Sunday morning

SHABQADAR: At least five security personnel were injured in two IED blasts targeting a security convoy in Federally Administered Tribal Area's (Fata) Mohmand Agency, political administration said.

The security forces were patrolling in Alingar area of the agency when the convoy was hit by two consecutive blasts in the wee hours of Sunday, a political administration official told The Express Tribune. The IED’s had been planted on the roadside by unidentified assailants.

The injured security personnel were shifted to a nearby hospital at Mamad Gat for emergency medical treatment as security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to arrest the suspects.

Confirming the incident, another official said four security personnel suffered minor injuries in an IED attack. “Four security personnel were minor injured when an IED went off near Bilal Market,” he upheld.



Meanwhile, on directives of Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) the political administration distributed compensation money among all the injured who are said to be in a stable condition.

The attack on security forces came days after two Levies force personnel were injured in an IED explosion in Bajaur Agency. The explosives planted by the roadside went off as the personnel patrolled Naik Banda Mamond area of the agency. The two personnel were shifted to the agency headquarters in Khar where their condition was said to be out of danger.

Earlier on August 19, a security official was killed while a civilian was injured when an improvised explosive device went off at a water spring in Bajaur Agency. Similarly, on August 9, roadside bomb blast killed two security personnel in the agency. The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mohmand Agency, which shares its border with Afghanistan as well as Bajaur Agency, was cleared by the army after military operations in 2008-9. However, several attacks on security officials and pro-government tribal elders have been reported in the area ever since.