The X handle of PTI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa posted in Urdu, “During the jet aircraft bombing in the Tirah Valley of Khyber, several bombs fell on the local population…five houses of local citizens were destroyed, and according to local sources, 20 bodies have been recovered from the rubble so far, including children and women among the martyrs…"

While there are conflicting accounts of today’s incident, Pakistani army crackdown in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region is not unheard of, given the presence of the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) or the Pakistan Taliban in the region.

Security forces have often claimed that the TTP uses civilians as human shields. About Monday’s incident, a police officer told AP that two local Pakistani Taliban commanders, Aman Gul and Masood Khan, had established hideouts in the compound, which was being used as a factory for producing roadside bombs.-Agencies