BANNU: Three security personnel were killed and two others, a captain among them, injured in a roadside landmine blast in Frontier Region Bannu on Thursday.

Sources said security men were patrolling Seentanga area in FR Bannu near the border of volatile North Waziristan region when their vehicle was hit by a landmine.

Three personnel — Muzaffar, Nasir Ali and Jaffar Khan — were killed and two others injured. The wounded were taken to the district headquarters hospital Bannu in critical condition. Of the injured one was identified as Captain Obaid.

After the incident, a search operation was carried out in the area. However, no arrest was made.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

AFP adds: “A patrolling team was inspecting the Bannu-Miramsah road to build a military checkpost” when they were hit by the blast, a security official based in Peshawar said.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2014