UPPER DIR, Sept 16: Army and police personnel continued their search in border areas of Upper Dir for perpetrators of Sunday’s bomb attack which left two senior military officers and a soldier dead.

General Officer Commanding Malakand division Maj Gen Sanaullah, Lt Col Tauseef Ahmed and soldier Irfanullah were killed when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted on a road in Gat area of Shahikot near the Pakistan-Afghan border.

Shahikot police registered an FIR against unnamed terrorists.

Officials said the area was under curfew and military and police officers were supervising the search.

The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan said its Malakand chapter led by fugitive Maulana Fazlullah had carried out the attack.

Fazlullah or his men do not control any area of Dir or any part of Malakand division but carry out attacks from the Afghan province of Kunar where they have sanctuaries.

A police official said in Barawal that about 15 people had been rounded up but there was no breakthrough in the case.

Police and local people said there was no unusual movement of troops. Army is deployed in the border area to prevent attacks by militants from Kunar and Nuristan provinces.