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Security man killed in Mohmand IED blast
[Dawn] A security man was killed when an improvised bomb went off in Baizai tehsil of  Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal region on Sunday, officials said. They said that security personnel were fetching water from a spring in Wali Kor area of Baizai when one of them stepped on the bomb, planted along the track. A security man was killed while his other companions remained unhurt in the blast, they added. A front man for Mohmand Taliban talked to local journalists by telephone from In Khyber Agency, two persons including a security man were killed and two children received injuries in different incidents in Bara tehsil on Sunday. Sources said that headless body of a kidnapped official of Frontier Corps was found in Alamgudar area of Bara. They said that the dear departed identified as Jameel Khattak was kidnapped by faceless myrmidons after he got injured during a clash with them.  His beheaded body was thrown on a road at the night and it was found on Sunday morning.In Jamrud, unidentified persons rubbed out a primitive near Shahkas locality. Sources said that Amir Jan, a resident of Bara, along with another person was coming to Jamrud on a cycle of violence when he was intercepted by two gunnies, also riding a cycle of violence. The assailants made their escape good after getting him off from the cycle of violence and killing him on the spot. Reason behind the killing could not be known, however, sources said that the dear departed was member of a banned group from Bara. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... two children were maimed when a mortar shell fell on the house of Janas Khan in Akkakhel area of Bara. The injured children were shifted to ICRC hospital in Peshawar. Also, security forces handed over bodies of six suspected faceless myrmidons to the local political administration. The bodies were later handed over to their relatives at Levies Centre in Bara. The six suspected faceless myrmidons included four Afghan nationals and two local rustics identified as Jalil Jan Shalobar and Othmankhel Akkakhel. Security forces on Saturday claimed to have killed 36 faceless myrmidons during an operation in Alamgudar area of Bara. Four army men including a lieutenant were also killed in the daylong operation. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-13 |
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