A peace committee member and two of his Police guards were among five people were killed and several other people sustained injuries in a remote-controlled blast at Kot Katai village of Bara Bandi area in Kabal tehsil (revenue unit) of Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in the evening of September 13, reports Dawn. The peace committee member, identified as Idrees Khan,was the target of blast. Two of his Police guards were identified as head constable Rambil and constable Tauheed. A passer-by, Sanaullah, and another unidentified man were killed in the attack. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Separately, three soldiers were killed in the Kharlachi area of Kurram District in KP along the border with Afghanistan when terrorists open gunfire at troops from across the fenced border on September 13, reports Samaa TV. According to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), troops patrolling the fenced border near Kharlachi when they came under gun attack from the Sarchar area of Afghanistan. The dead soldiers were identified as 32-year-old Naik Muhammad Rehman from Karak District (KP), 34-year-old Naik Muawaiz Khan from Jamrud tehsil of Khyber District (KP) and 27-year-old Sepoy Irfanullah from Dargaitehsilof Malakand District (KP).