BARA: At least five people were killed and two others injured in a clash between two banned militants groups – Ansarul Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam – in the Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency, officials said on Saturday. Political administration officials told Daily Times that armed supporters of the two groups were using heavy weaponry to target rival hideouts in the valley.
Destroyed: The officials said security forces fired at hideouts of Lashkar-e-Islam, destroying two of them. Hundreds of people have been killed in bloody clashes between the two groups in the past five years. Scores of people have reportedly relocated to other parts of the tribal agency and Peshawar in a bid to escape the increasing violence.