Three security personnel, including an army major, and eight alleged militants have been killed in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The killings occurred in a shootout in the Bakka Khel area of the volatile district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday.
A statement from the army’s media wing said the security forces planned an intelligence-based operation (IBO) on the basis of reports about the presence of militants in the area.
The security forces engaged the fighters and killed eight of them. Seven militants ere also injured, the ISPR statement added.
In Balochistan province, one militant was killed and another arrested after being injured by the security personnel in the Sambaza area of Zhob.
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