LANDI KOTAL, Oct 9: About 15 militants were killed in two incidents in Khyber Agency on Tuesday.

Six activists of the militant Lashkar-i-Islam organisation and their ‘commander’ Khan Mohammad were killed when a bomb exploded in a bunker they had occupied after a clash with their rival Tawheedul Islam group.

Bullet-riddled bodies of seven Tawheedul Islam militants were found in a drain in Sipah area of Bara. There were marks of torture on the bodies, they added.

The TI men had been kidnapped from Bazaar-Zakhakhel area a week ago.

KIDNAPPED: A Christian man was kidnapped from Jamrud Bazaar.  Khasadar officials said that Navid Piyara had come to Jamrud from Rawalpindi to settle a monetary dispute with a local man.

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