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60 FC men surrender in Swat

Daily Times Monitor

LAHORE: Sixty Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel from FC’s Drushkhela camp on Thursday surrendered to Taliban militants in the Matta tehsil of Swat, Geo TV reported.

According to the channel, the militants besieged FC’s Drushkhela camp on Thursday. After some talks, at least 60 FC personnel surrendered to the militants and handed over their weapons to them. These FC personnel will be treated like guests, the channel quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying.

On Wednesday, dozens of paramilitary troops and police surrendered their weapons to the militants and retreated from Kalam early on Wednesday, a police official told AFP.

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