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Two Students Die In Clashes With Militants In Tribal Areas
 Tank, 20 March (AKI/DAWN) - Two school students were killed and six others injured when their bus was caught in crossfire between local Taliban fighters and Uzbek militants in Pakistan's restive tribal area of South Waziristan on Monday, witnesses and local people told the Pakistani daily Dawn. They said that the bus of the Musa Public School taking the students to their homes came under fire at Jaghundai area near the Pakistan-Afghan border. It is not clear whether the bus was hit by bullets or a rocket.
According to information received in Tank, tension had been mounting between local Taliban and Uzbek militants in the past three days after the killing of an Arab militant. According to local people, Taliban leaders suspected the involvement of Uzbek militants in the killing of the Arab national. | Ah, so the local Taliban thugs are upset that the Uzbek gang wacked a Arab militant. I love the smell of Red on Red bloodshed in the morning |
The Uzbeks tried to clarify the situation to the Taliban leaders and claimed that he (the Arab militant) was killed during a training session when a bullet hit him, they said, adding that the main Wana-Azam Warsak road had been occupied by Uzbek militants belonging to the Tahir Yuldashev group and the local Taliban led by Maulvi Nazir had taken positions on nearby hills and thoroughfares. | "It was an accident! Honest, he fell in front of my gun!" |
They said that vehicular traffic on the road was suspended at about 1 pm local time. They also said that two Uzbeks had been killed on Saturday night and the Uzbek fighters suspected that local Taliban militants had carried out the killing. | "Hatfields, meet McCoys. McCoys, Hatfields." |
They said the issue caused extreme tension between the two groups and there had been rumours that an important personality from Afghanistan was due in the agency to pacify the two groups. | Bringing in the Godfather to mediate the conflict? I smell a target rich enviroment |
A clash on March 6 between local tribesmen of Darikhel tribe and Uzbek militants had left 17 people, including 12 foreigners, dead.
Posted by: Steve 2007-03-20 |
