ISLAMABAD: Six Pakistani Taliban militants were killed in an encounter with counter-terrorism department (CTD) personnel in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, police said late Friday.
CTD personnel conducted an intelligence-based operation against Pakistani Taliban, or the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, in Shagai area of Lakki Marwat district, according to a CTD spokesman.
The militants opened fire on the CTD team upon seeing them and six TTP members were killed in retaliatory fire, with arms and ammunition recovered from the site.
“The process of identification of the deceased terrorists is underway, after which action will be taken against their facilitators and other associates,” the CTD spokesman said in a statement.
The militants were killed hours after six policemen were killed when an explosion hit their vehicle in the same district, the Pakistani interior ministry said.
