Taliban kill 15 kidnapped FC troops

PESHAWAR: The bodies of 15 members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) were found Thursday, almost two weeks after they were kidnapped from a northwestern town, officials said.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the killings.

A senior local FC commander confirmed the news and told that the 15 kidnapped FC men were killed in Shawa, a small town in the North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. He told that all the corpses had bullet wounds.

Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the killings, saying the troops were killed as a revenge for continued operations of security forces against them in Landi Kotal.

The FC personnel were kidnapped late last month during a night-time attack on a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Tank.