One Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldier was killed and another injured in a suicide attack on an FC training centre in Charsadda’s Shabqadar area, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The military’s media wing said the attack was “foiled” and two suicide bombers were killed in retaliatory fire.
FC Commandant Liaqat Ali Khan addressed a press conference after attending the funeral of the FC personnel killed in the early morning attack.
The attackers tried to sneak into the training facility in the wee hours of Friday to “cause maximum casualties,” said the FC commandant, “but the guards quickly responded and neutralised the attackers”.
Khan said one attacker was killed by FC personnel while the other died after his jacket exploded when it was hit by gunfire.
The remains of one suicide bomber are unrecognisable, whereas the other attacker’s limb has been recovered from the site, he added.
