LAKKI MARWAT: Two soldiers travelling in a passenger coach from Karak were kidnapped by terrorists in the Kurrum Par area of Lakki Marwat district on Friday.<\/p>\n
Official sources said one of the soldiers managed to escape his captors, while the other was taken to an unknown location.<\/p>\n
Armed men had closed a rural road and were checking vehicles near Wanda Gulapa area, located in the Dadiwala police limits, bordering Karak and Mianwali districts, sources said, adding that the residents of Shah Slaim and other areas of Karak district use the rural roads of Lakki Marwat to travel to Mianwali and other parts of Punjab.<\/p>\n
Sources said the soldiers were on their way to Mian\u00adwali from Karak in the passenger coach. \u201cThe terrorists alighted them from the vehicle and were shifting them towards an unknown place when one of the soldiers escaped from their captivity,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
Cop martyred<\/p>\n
Separately, a police official was martyred in a gun attack in Bannu on Friday.<\/p>\n
Constable Kamran Khan of the district security branch (DSB) was performing duties in the Mamashkhel area when armed motorcyclists shot him dead before speeding away, a police official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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