A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier, Fazal Khaliq, was killed by sniper fire in Gomal tehsil of Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to sources, the attack was carried out by militants of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Sources said Fazal Khaliq was on duty at a security post still under construction in Gomal when he was hit. He was critically wounded and later died of his injuries.
According to available information, he was the son of Ismail and lived in Mohalla Bagh in Parmoli village, Swabi district. No official statement from the security authorities had been issued at the time of reporting.