Peshawar, July 12 : Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mehsud has claimed to have captured 29 security personnel from Hangu and threatened to start killing them one by one from Saturday afternoon if the military operation was not stopped and the militants released.
“We will be left with no option but to start killing the captive soldiers if our people were not released by 2 pm Saturday,” threatened Maulvi Omar, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The News quoted Omar as saying that they had captured 29 security personnel including, 12 Pakistan Army soldiers, eight paramilitary FC personnel and seven policemen, from Doaba and Thall areas after the local police arrested their peaceful Taliban colleagues from Doaba Bazaar.