ISLAMABAD: Interior Ministry has presented the details before the Senateregarding the martyred and wounded persons in terrorist incidents occurredbetween January 2015 and September 2020.
In its written response, the interior ministry detailed that the NationalCounter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is compiling data of martyred personsin terrorist incidents since 2015, however, the statistics did not containdetails of terrorists killed in different actions.
The Senate was told that 3,990 incidents of terrorism took place fromJanuary 2015 to September 2020. 3,384 persons were martyred and 8,436people left wounded in the incidents. 1,457 personnel of law enforcementagencies were martyred and 1,927 other persons also lost their lives,whereas, 2,569 security officials and 5,867 other persons were wounded.
In year-wise statistics, 1,139 incidents occurred in 2015 which caused theloss of 838 lives and 1,706 left wounded. 785 incidents took place in 2016with 804 deaths and 1,914 injured. 668 people were martyred and 2,153injured in 741 incidents occurred in 2017.
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584 incidents took place in 2018 with 517 martyrdoms and 1,256 wounded. 375people were martyred and 963 injured in 482 incidents occurred in 2019 and175 martyrdoms and 446 people left wounded in 259 incidents in 259 tillSeptember 2020.
