PESHAWAR: More than 400 armed Taliban stormed two security checkpoints in Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar late on Wednesday night killing two and kidnapping 22 Levies personnel, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 27 December, 2012.
Assistant Political Agent (APA) FR Peshawar Naveed Akbar confirmed the kidnapping of 22 Levies men by the Taliban, who also killed two personnel and injured another.
“We had deployed 30 Levies personnel at two checkpoints in the Hassankhel and Janakor areas of FR Peshawar and 22 of them went missing after the Taliban attack on Wednesday night,” the APA told Dispatch News Desk (DND).
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan claimed responsibility for the attack and the kidnapping of the security personnel.
DND
