IED

IED event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Teer Banda area near Pak-Afghan border in Mamund Tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur District area, India on Wed 20th October 2021

20th October 2021

The source material and subsequent headlines on METIS are collated by our system and taken direct from source. The opinions and views expressed in these source articles and source headlines are not the views and opinions of METIS or its employees.

METIS is not able to substantiate the veracity of sources or check misinformation in real-time. Our analysis is based on currently reported information and may change as new information becomes available.

Two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and two Police constables were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Teer Banda area near Pak-Afghan border in Mamund Tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in the night of October 20, reports Dawn. Bajaur District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Samad Khan said the joint team of Security Forces (SFs) and Police were conducting a search operation in the area following an earlier explosion that had targeted a vehicle of a contractor, wounding two persons. The dead FC personnel were identified as Lance Naik Mudassir (28), a resident of Kohat District (KP) and Sepoy Jamshed (26), a resident of Karachi (Sindh). The dead Police constables were identified as Sepoy Abdul Samad and Sepoy Noor Rehman.

Contextual analysis

Analysing the event count by highlighting the presence of munition categories over a six-month data period.

Enterprise

Understand the complete picture with an Enterprise account.

Learn more

Information sources

Discussion and media of this event has been extracted from all sources.

Enterprise

Country information

Click to view more information about the country and see more information on conflicts occuring in that region.

India (IND)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( Teer Banda area near Pak-Afghan border in Mamund Tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur District area )

Discover more

Events using similar munitions or platforms and those that happen within a recent time line and proximity are displayed below.

Enterprise

Understand the complete picture with an Enterprise account.

Learn more