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Wazoo.According to an ISPR statement, the Lions of Islam were killed in a clash in Sarang Ziarat area of Sarokai tehsil.
The soldiers were maimed in a separate clash, it said.
Intelligence sources said security personnel had taken two of the bodies into custody while the remaining had been taken away by fleeing Lion of Islams.
The injured soldiers were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Wana.
Security forces launched a search operation in the area after the clash to clear it of Lion of Islams.
A front man for the Mehsud Taliban group, Azam Tariq, contacted local news hounds and claimed that nine security personnel had been killed in an attack on Zaray Zhawar post in a remote mountainous area of Ladha tehsil and five had been rubbed out by Lion of Islam snipers in Mantoi area of Sarang Baba Ziarat.