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Lowari tunnel base camp attacked

The News

Javed Afridi

PESHAWAR: Militants on Friday attacked the base camp of a Korean company, SAMBU, contracted for the construction of the Lowari Tunnel, camp officials said. No casualty was reported in the incident.

The militants attacked the camp established near the tunnel’s opening in Dir Upper during Friday prayers with assault rifles. The camp’s water tank, building roofs, a nearby mosque and labourers’ room were hit during the attack.

A Korean camp official, wishing not to be named, told The News that militants opened indiscriminate fire on the camp and fled. The official said that around 20 rounds of shells were collected from the scene and later handed over to the police.

Eyewitnesses said neither the Frontier Constabulary (FC) men nor the local police squad stationed in the area to protect the camp returned the fire. They initiated a search operation in the area after the terrorists fled the scene.

In an unprecedented development, an armed Lashkar in Buner district recently hunted down and killed six militants allegedly involved in killing cops in Kingargali. The incident was enough to show that the people of Buner, Dir Upper and Dir Lower had stood up against the Taliban militants sneaking into these hitherto peaceful areas after Bajaur and Swat military operations.

Locals, therefore, fear the Taliban might have launched the attack. A grand Jirga of the elders of Maidan area in Dir Lower district’s headquarters, Timergara, had asked over 150 foreign fighters and their tribal Taliban supporters to leave the area or face strong action from the local people.

A similar Jirga in Barawal, a town of Dir Upper district sharing border with Afghanistan, warned the militants to stay away from the area or else they would take up arms against them.

The Buner incident took place on Khel Mountain in Shalbandai when hundreds of local people picked up arms, locally called ‘Appa’, on information of the presence of the Taliban militants, who had brutally killed eight policemen in Kingargali last Friday