Peshawar: Banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan’s Darra Adamkhel faction has reportedly killed 21 of the 23 personnel of Levies kidnapped on Thursday (December 27, 2012).
Frontier Region Peshawar officials have confirmed that all the military-men were shot dead.
One militiaman, who managed to escape the militants, has reached home, sources said.
Another official has been miraculously saved in the incident and has been shifted to the Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital.
“We found 21 bullet riddled bodies of security personnel a short while ago in an uninhabited area,” local government official Naveed Akbar told AFP.
“One was found alive but wounded and admitted to hospital while another managed to escape unhurt.”
Earlier, the political administration asked elders of the Frontier Region Peshawar to help the government to recover the personnel as it was the duty of the local people to find out the whereabouts of the militiamen.
On Thursday, the militants overrun and destroyed three checkposts at Hassan Khal and Jina Kor areas, killing two and kidnapping 23 militia personnel.
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