KHAR/GHALANAI: A peace committee member was killed by unknown miscreants in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Sunday.

Local administration officials said unidentified militants attacked a post manned by peace committee members in remote Gat Agra area in the small hours of Sunday. A volunteer of the peace committee identified as Imran Khan died in the attack. However, other volunteers at the post remained unhurt.

After the attack, local people and members of peace committees reached the spot and launched efforts to trace the attackers, but the assailants managed to escape.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack; however the local administration blamed the militants for the deadly assault.

The residents and family members of the deceased said Imran had no enmity with anybody and that miscreants could be behind the attack.

In Ghalanai, three security personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) were injured when two improvised explosive devices went off, and a third was defused by bomb disposal squad men along the Peshawar-Bajaur road in Safi tehsil on Sunday.

Officials said the bomb disposal squad was on a routine patrol to clear the Peshawar-Bajaur road when an improvised explosive device went off in Qayyum Abad area. As a result, two personnel were injured.

Later, another IED planted in the same area also exploded, injuring a security official. He was shifted to local hospital. Another IED was safely defused in the same area.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2016

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