MIRAMSHAH, April 2: A soldier and a civilian were killed and four others injured on Saturday night when a fort came under attack in Dattakhel, 25 kilometres west of here. The deceased was identified as sepoy Afzal while the injured men were identified as Capt Sohail, sepoy Akhtar, havaldar Sultan and a lance naik of Thall Scouts, whose name could not be ascertained.
Sources said that the fort housing the army and paramilitary forces was attacked from the side of Manzarkhel village.
Security forces countered the attack and opened artillery fire in the direction of the attackers, killing one person and injuring a woman and two children.
They also launched retaliatory action against the attack from Miramshah, headquarters of the troubled North Waziristan Agency, the sources said.
Meanwhile, night curfew is continuing in Miramshah and Mirali town, east of the agency headquarters.
CLERIC KILLED: Tribesmen have found the body of a cleric in Srarogha village in the South Waziristan Agency more than 48 hours after he had been kidnapped in the Frontier region of Lakki Marwat, sources said here on Sunday.
The 65-year-old cleric, Maulvi Zahir Shah, disappeared on the night between Thursday and Friday and was last seen with five men who had come to fetch him from his madrassah (Mazahirul Uloom Madrassah) in the Tajbikhel Bhettani area near Tajori in Lakki Marwat.
Maulvi Shah agreed to accompany them because they had told him that one of their acquaintances needed faith healing.
