KHYBER/PESHAWAR: A Frontier Corps soldier received bullet injuries when a military vehicle came under attack from suspect militants in Bara late Thursday evening.

Sources said that a vehicle carrying FC men was on its way to Jansi Fort from Speen Qabar Chowk in Sipah area of Bara when unidentified miscreants opened firing on it at around 9:15pm.

They said the FC men in the vehicle also retaliated forcing the attacking party to retreat.

An FC trooper, whose name could not be immediately known, received bullet injuries and was rushed to a military hospital. Security forces later conducted a search operation in the area.

The Bara incident took place only a day after an ambush of a bomb disposal mobile party by suspect militants in Tirah valley on Wednesday in which two soldiers embraced martyrdom.

Meanwhile, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police arrested three facilitators of the suicide bomber who blew himself up in mosque in Ali Masjid area of district Khyber on July 23, CTD says.

According to a statement issued by the CTD on Thursday, Dilawar Khan and his two sons Zabita Khan and Arif, residents of Sultankhel area of Khyber district were arrested, adding that the accused persons confessed to facilitating the incident.

It also said that the CTD recovered a suicide jacket, a Kalashnikov, bullets and other material from the arrested persons.

Earlier on July 27, police and intelligence authorities claimed to have arrested three suspects during an intelligence-based operation in Sultankhel and Nekkikhel areas of Landi Kotal. The suspect was arrested soon after the suicide attack inside the mosque.

Published in Dawn, August 4th, 2023