HANGU: Security forces claimed to have gunned down an al Qaeda-linked foreign militant among six others during a militant attack on Thall Checkpost on Saturday.

Intelligence officials, not wanting to be named, told Dawn.com said that a militant attack was launched on the Thall Frontier Constabulary (FC) checkpost at midnight during which two FC soldiers were killed and 20 others were injured.

He added that those wounded in the attack had sustained only minor injuries.

The sources said that security forces resorted to retaliatory gunfire killing six to eight militants, one whom was stated to be an al-Qaeda linked Arab national.

“Documents in Arabic and Maps also marked in Arabic have been recovered from the spot which shows the attackers also have some foreigners of Arab origin in the squad,” the sources remarked.

In another incident four security personnel were killed and 12 others wounded, when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Baka Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu district.

Security officials, wanting not to be named, told Dawn.com that the security personnel were travelling from North Waziristan region's Miramshah area to Bannu, on routine patrol, when the vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident on the Bannu-Miramshah road in Baka Khel area.

The injured personnel were shifted to Combined Military Hospital Bannu for treatment.