KOHAT, Oct 3: Militants in Darra Adamkhel have claimed that a Polish engineer kidnapped from Attock is in their custody.

Taliban’s spokesman Mohammad told journalists that the engineer had been kidnapped by them and brought from Attock across the Indus to Kohat by boat and then shifted to an unspecified place.

He said the engineer would be killed if the government did not release the detained Taliban.

The Taliban also have in their custody eight security personnel kidnapped from a checkpost in Kotal last month. One soldier was killed and three others were injured in the attack on the checkpost.

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