Security Force (SF) personnel on July 15 rescued five labourers — among 16 — who were abducted by "unknown terrorists" on June 26 in Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Geo TV. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that following the abduction, the terrorists had released 10 out the 16 labourers on June 27, while the body of one was found. In a bid to rescue the renaming labourers, the security forces had launched a series of intelligence-based operations (IBO) in "highly inhospitable terrain under extreme weather conditions".