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BANNU: Casualties were reported on Saturday morning as heavy fighting was underway between a police peace committee and militants in the Barakzai Akhundkhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district.
Medical Teaching Institution Bannu spokesperson, Mohammad Nauman Khattab, said “three injured policemen and a martyr were brought” to the District Headquarters Hospital.
The deceased was said to be a “retired personnel of the Federal Constabulary”, Khattab added.
Details regarding casualties among the militants have not yet been released as the police operation continues.
