MINGORA: A policeman was killed while two others were reported missing when militants attacked a police checkpost in Totano Banday area of Kabal tehsil, Swat, on Saturday, police said. The militants also took wireless and other communication equipments and the missing soldiers are feared kidnapped, a senior police official told Daily Times. The incident occurred after pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah ordered his followers to abduct policemen and FC personnel, but he refused to accept responsibility for the attack. | Whoa! That's never happened before, has it? |
In Bajaur tribal district, the authorities reported that pro-Taliban militants killed a soldier and two women in overnight attacks. The paramilitary soldier died when mortars hit a camp in the Bajaur, and the women were killed when a mortar shell struck their house, local official Fazal Rabi told AFP. He said two other soldiers were injured, as were six tribesmen.
Also in Bajaur, an Afghan national and a local tribesman were found shot dead outside Khar. “The two were murdered by militants who suspected them to be spying for government forces,” an official said.