Two soldiers and five civilians were martyred in a terrorist attack on a rural health centre in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, the military’s media wing said on Tuesday.
In a separate terrorist attack targeting Bannu Cantonment on Monday eight members of the security forces were killed while a retaliatory operation killed 10 terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has said. According to a press release, an attempt by 10 terrorists to enter Bannu Cantonment in the early hours of Monday was “effectively thwarted” by security forces personnel, “which forced the terrorists to ram an explosive laden vehicle into perimeter wall of the cantonment.”
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Source: Dawn News
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