As many as three security personnel were killed and eight others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Bakakhel area of FR Bannu on Sunday.
An official said that a convoy of security forces was on way to Miranshah when the militants attacked it in Bakakhel. A vehicle was completely destroyed in the attack.
The official also said a security official died on the spot whereas two succumbed to their injuries in a hospital. The injured officials were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Bannu. They are said to be out of danger.
Terrorist outfit Ansarul Islam has claimed responsibility for the attack. Soon after the attack, security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
Meanwhile, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has heightened security after getting information about a possible terrorist attack. An official said law enforcers had intercepted telephonic conversation of the Taliban militants in which they were talking about attacking FC and police stations in and around Peshawar.
The government has also deployed plainclothesmen in markets and shopping centres to keep an eye on suspects.
Separately, an improvised explosive device (IED) planted near a check post in Karkhano market Peshawar went off, injuring one security official.
