QUETTA, March 23: Three Frontier Corps personnel, a non-commissioned officer among them, were killed and five others were injured in an attack on their checkpost in Mir Alikhail area close to Pakistan-Afghan border on Friday morning.

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. There were reports that five FC men were missing, but official sources did not confirm it.

Official sources said that terrorists attacked the Mughkot checkpost with automatic weapons. The attack left a non-commissioned officer and two other FC personnel dead and five others seriously injured.

The casualty was confirmed by a FC officer in Zhob. Troops deployed on other checkposts rushed to the place and returned fire. After a heavy exchange of fire, the terrorists escaped.

Three of the injured FC personnel, Subaidar Habib-ur-Rehman, Naib Subaidar Shaukat Ali and Naik Dost Ali, were taken to the Combined Military Hospital in Zhob.

A TTP spokesman calling from an unspecified place told BBC that they had killed three security personnel, injured seven others and kidnapped five men of the force.—Staff Correspondent