PESHAWAR: Police killed a militant commander, who had escaped during the Bannu jailbreak in 2012, in a search and strike operation in the limits of Naurang police station in Lakki Marwat district on Wednesday.

A statement issued here identified the militant commander as Rauf and said that he carried a head money of Rs2 million on his arrest. It said that the encounter took place in Takhtikhel area of the Naurang police station.

It said that the operation was carried on intelligence information, adding that the accused was wanted in at least 30 cases of bomb blast, murder, dacoity, kidnapping for ransom and robbery.

The statement said that the accused used to carry out his criminal activities on the Indus Highway in a military uniform.

The police also claimed to have recovered a sub-machinegun, three hand grenades and a mobile phone from possession of the accused.

They said that the operation continued for around three hours during which Rauf was killed. They said that the accused had escaped during the Bannu jailbreak of 2012.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2015

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