PARACHINAR/LANDI KOTAL, Feb 16: The body of a security man was found in Shaho village in Kurram tribal region on Saturday, sources said.

They said that Naek Nabi Hussain Turi, an official of Frontier Corps, was axed to death by unidentified persons, who threw his body along the road between Ghund post and Shasho village in lower Kurram.

Sources said that the FC man was coming home on leave when the assailants attacked him, they added.

The political administration launched a search operation to arrest the killers with the help of sniffer dogs, they said.

In Khyber Agency, unidentified armed men demolished a house of a local tribesman in Bara on Saturday.

Sources said that a group of armed men riding pick-up trucks and tractor trolleys demolished the house of Shultan Mohammad in Yousuf Talab area of Sipah. They said that the armed persons took all the windows, doors, girders and other household items with them before razing the house.