The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have killed 15 kidnapped troops in revenge for military operations against them near the Afghan border, a Taliban spokesman said Thursday, vowing further such attacks.
Pakistani forces have targeted militants in the Khyber tribal region on and off for more than four years.
“This is revenge for the killing of our comrades in Khyber by Pakistani forces,” TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters.
“We will soon take revenge for other operations too.”
Local officials confirmed that 15 bodies, with signs of torture and gunshot wounds, had been found in the Thal area of the Hangu district.
The Pakistani soldiers were kidnapped on Dec 23 when dozens of Taliban militants stormed a paramilitary fort in the Tank district.
