Four soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and one was injured in two separate incidents of firing by militants near the Afghan border, the military's media wing said on Saturday.
The first incident occurred in North Waziristan tribal district, where miscreants opened fired on a routine patrolling party of security forces near Abba Khel area of Spinwam tehsil late on Friday night, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
As a result, 23-year-old Sepoy Akhtar Hussain, a resident of District Baltistan, embraced martyrdom.
"In exchange of fire, two miscreants [were] killed," the ISPR said.
In a separate incident in Dir, suspected terrorists opened fire from across the Pak-Afghan border on Pakistan Army troops who were busy in border fencing.
"3 soldiers embraced shahadat while 1 got injured" in the incident, the military's media wing said.
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