Peshawar: At least 14 security personnel including a colonel and captain were killed in a raid of miscreants in Khyber Agency, tribal area of Pakistan, onĀ Monday late night, sources said.
The incident took place in Bara Ikka Khel Sheen Darhan area of Khyber Agency when unidentified miscreants ambushed with heavy weapons while a convoy of security force was returning to its camps after a search operation. As a result, 14 security personnel including a colonel and captain died on the spot.Ā The identities of the victims were yet to be ascertained.
The bodies were rushed to a nearby hospital for autopsies.
While, official sources said that all 14 security personnel died in an accident when a mortar shell blew up while the convoy was returning to its camp.
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