Six killed in Kohat attack

The News: Friday, January 21, 2011

KOHAT: Four Frontier Constabulary (FC) men and two workers of a foreign oil and gas company were killed when militants attacked their convoy in Lachi Tehsil on Thursday, official sources said. The militants also kidnapped two other workers of the gas company.

The sources said the employees of the MOL company were on their way to Kohat in two official vans under the escort of the FC soldiers when they came under attack near Dar Malak village.

Three FC men and the gas company’s driver and an employee were killed on the spot while two FC men sustained injuries. One of them died at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Lachi and another was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Kohat.

The dead were identified as Havaldar Ali Zaman, Lance Naik Salim Khan, Lance Naik Amal Daraz, Sepoy Younas Khan, company driver Amir Janan and worker Muhammad Hafeez. The injured FC man was Sepoy Sirajuddin.

District Police Officer, Kohat, Mubarak Zaib Khan, said that the militants also kidnapped two employees of the MOL company, adding that large contingents of police and FC had cordoned off the area to arrest the fleeing militants. The identity of the kidnapped employees could not be ascertained.