DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two security personnel and two employees of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) were killed in an attack in Shado area on Tuesday.

Dera Ismail Khan Commissioner Zakir Hussain Baloch said gunmen on motorcycles attacked the site of under-construction Gomal Zam dam, killing two FWO workers and two personnel of the Frontier Constabulary. The soldiers were deployed to provide security to the construction workers.

District Police Officer Sadiq Hussain said that FC troops were the target of the attack.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2015

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