'Targeted' operation launched in Lower Kurram to eliminate terrorists
In order to rid restive Kurram of miscreants and secure the highway connecting the district with other parts of the country, a security operation has started in the Bagan area of the tribal district, officials said on Sunday.
“The forces have begun the operation to sanitise the area in and around Bagan by taking over check posts and destroying bunkers along the route,” sources privy to the details of the operation said.
They said security forces and paramilitary Frontier Corps were leading the operation, with the police closely following behind.
According to officials, the law enforcement agencies’ personnel were moving into the villages, but the miscreants had already fled and evacuations were already underway from the residential areas. “The plan is to secure the road in the next couple of days to allow the trucks to start moving (between Kurram and Peshawar),” they said.
The law enforcers had taken control of the bunkers on the mountains and a search operation was expected during the night, officials said, adding that security forces were deployed in lower Kurram and the operation would be carried out in four villages.
During a news conference held in Kurram on Sunday, Regional Police Officer Abbas Majeed Marwat said that the first convoy left successfully for Parachinar, followed by a second convoy. He said locals had committed that the third convoy should carry more supplies and they would support it, but the attack took place that resulted in several deaths.
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