The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced on Tuesday that seven people—two members of the security forces and five civilians, including children—were slain in a terrorist attack on the Rural Health Center (RHC) in the Kirri Shamozai area of the Dera Ismail Khan province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In addition to the two youngsters, the RHC staff members who perished in the gunshot attack included two female health workers and a facility watchman, according to the military’s media wing.
“On the night between July 15 and 16, the terrorists carried out a cowardly attack on Rural Health Center (RHC), Kirri Shamozai in Dera Ismail Khan District and opened indiscriminate fire on RHC staff,” the ISPR stated in a statement following the incident.
“Security forces in vicinity were immediately mobilised for clearance operation in RHC and in ensuing fire exchange, own troops effectively engaged the terrorists as a result of which three terrorists were sent to hell.”
The security forces personnel who lost their lives in the heated gunfight were identified as Sepoy Muhammad Javed Iqbal, 23, and Naib Subedar Muhammad Farooq, 44.
According to the military’s media wing, the area is being sanitized in order to get rid of any further terrorists that may be present.
“The perpetrators of this heinous and cowardly act targeting innocent civilians, especially women and children, will be brought to justice,” said the statement.
