LANDI KOTAL, Sept 10: Three security personnel were injured in two different incidents in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday.

Officials said that two personnel of Frontier Constabulary were injured critically when an improvised explosive device planted along the roadside in Naw Gazee Baba was detonated through a remote control. A patrolling party of security forces was passing through the area at the time of blast, they added.

In another incident, a security official was injured when militants attacked a patrolling party of security forces in Qambarabad near Bara Bazaar.

All the injured were shifted to military hospital in Peshawar.—Correspondent

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