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KOHAT Militants killed the administration officer of the army public school and college and kidnapped two police guards and a cable operator on Thall road in Hangu district on Sunday.
Officials said that the militants came in a vehicle and forcibly entered said college after holding the police guards at gun point. They killed the administration officer Ghareeb Gul, resident of Kohat, in his office. Later they whisked away two policemen, Bilal and Irshad, and a cable man, Suhail, to an unknown location.
It is the second daring attempt of the militants during last 24 hours in which they had kidnapped six officials in broad day light from Hangu.
The police sealed all exit points of Hangu to tribal areas and a search operation had been launched for the recovery of the officials.
On Saturday, the militants took away officials belonging to Shia sect in the restive Hangu district where sectarian war is going on for the last four years.
Both the communities had been blowing up the houses and shops of each other in Hangu city since fighting erupted last Muharram.
During Muharram the groups clashed near the Police Training College, Hangu following restriction on bringing out the traditional mourners' procession by the administration for security reasons. Dozens of people were killed in the battle which continued for four days.
Since then the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan had been kidnapping the passengers, school children, and officials and killing religious leaders of one community. And the pro-Iranian Haidri Taliban are giving tit for tat response to TTP.
In the wake of continuing battles and clashes in the Hangu district, Orakzai Agency, parts of Kohat and firing incidents on the Kohat-Parachinar Highway thousands of people are migrating every month to other parts of the country.
