KABUL – Mullah Fazalullah, Chief of TTP Pakistan has been killed in a USDrone strike in Kunner Afghanistan, according to media reports.
*No further confirmation has been made yet by Afghanistan government.*
Earlier the son of Mullah Fazlullah, chief of Pakistan’s Tehreek-i-Taliban,and 19 other insurgents were killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan onMarch 8.
TTP had confirmed the drone attack on its facility in eastern Kunarprovince and the killing of Abdullah, son of Mullah Fazlullah.
The report said that in a text message sent to the media in Bajaur Agencyon Wednesday evening, the insurgent group said that 20 suicide bombers werekilled, and six others wounded in the drone attack.
They said that a drone fired missiles at Ghazi Camp run by TTP in Kunarnear the Pakistani border, Dawn News reported adding that the TTP commanderof Bajaur chapter, Gul Mohammad, who was head of Ghazi Camp, was alsokilled in the attack.
Another commander named Ustad Yaseen, who trained suicide bombers, was alsoamong the dead.
Pakistani intelligence official said the drone struck on the day thetraining of the bombers was about to be completed.