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4 suicide bombers, 2 soldiers killed in attack on FC camp in Mohmand
[DAWN] At least four Death Eaters were killed in retaliatory fire by security forces when they launched a "suicide kaboom" on a camp of the Mohmand Rifles Headquarters in  Mohmand Agency... 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 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... on Saturday. Two soldiers of the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) were killed in the attack in Ghalanai, DG Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa said on Twitter. He said security forces had "defeated" the attack, killing all four jacket wallahs. At least 14 FC men were maimed in the attack. The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar bad boy group grabbed credit for the attack. Four suicide bombers attempted to enter the camp at 6:20am and attack a mosque in a residential area where a large number of soldiers were attending morning prayers. "Wearing suicide jackets, the attackers opened fire and tried to rush inside the mosque," the ISPR said in a statement. "Security forces surrounded the attackers. Two of the attackers blew themselves up while two others were rubbed out," it added. The attackers were contained in the outer courtyard of the mosque. A curfew was imposed in Mohmand Agency following the incursion as gunship helicopters searched the area. Mohmand is one of Pakistain’s seven tribal agencies near the Afghan border where the military has been battling al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Death Eaters for over a decade. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-27 |
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