 BARA: A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier and two suspected kidnappers were killed in an operation against notorious kidnapper Haji Gul in the Khyber Agency on Friday to recover a kidnapped man, administration officials said. Security forces wounded and arrested two accomplices of the gang in the operation near Bara town to free a hostage kidnapped from Peshawar, the officials told Daily Times. Frontier Corps (FC) personnel surrounded the kidnappers' hideout early on Friday, but repeated calls for surrender went unheeded, sources said. The operation was still going and the hostage had not been released, said Maibood, but gave no details about the identity of the hostage. An unconfirmed report said ringleader Haji Gul had also been wounded in the operation. Separately, hospital officials said one of three soldiers who had been wounded on Thursday by a remote-controlled bomb near Miranshah had died of his injuries. |