An Army Major and a sepoy were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Mohmand District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on September 20, reports Dawn. Major Adeel Shahid and Sepoy Faraz Hussain "fell victim to an IED planted by terrorists from across the border", the Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asif Ghafoor tweeted. The squad under the martyred officer was supervising fencing work in an area "which carried [a] critical infiltration route", the ISPR added.