A file photo of security forces. PHOTO AFP
According to officials, the personnel were on routine search operation and detecting any leftover IEDs in Khair Warsak Tehsil Ghulam Khan. A landmine, while being defused, went off leaving four personnel killed and destroying their vehicle completely.
Those killed were identified as soldier Asif, Naik Azanfar, Frontier Corps Naik Gul Khan and Lance Naik Asif.
The injured, namely Amir and Nimat, as well as the dead bodies were airlifted to Combined Military Hospital in Bannu.
Following the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and began a search operation.
Read: Five militants, one official killed in attack on security check post in North Waziristan
As per the ongoing operations Zarb-e-Azb and Khyber-I search operations are carried out frequently in attempts to eradicate terrorism from the country.
On April 30, five months into the military operation in the troubled spots of the Khyber tribal region, the military claimed a ‘huge success’ after ‘intense fighting’ that left 27 terrorists dead.
Read: Operation Khyber-II: 27 militants killed in fresh Tirah fighting
The Khyber-II operation was launched in mid-October last year following reports that some militants had fled the ongoing military offensive in North Waziristan Agency to seek shelter in the strategic Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency.
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