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Bomb in Pakistan kills 3 U.S. soldiers, 3 children
A bomb planted outside a girls' school killed three U.S. soldiers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the army said, in an area that had been largely cleared of Taliban militants.In scenes that have become familiar in the battle between Taliban militants and the state, a young girl trapped below the stones of a collapsed wall cried out for help. Three children and a Pakistani paramilitary soldier were also killed and 45 people were wounded in the blast near Swat Valley, where the government mounted a crackdown nearly a year ago it said had cleared out al Qaeda-linked Taliban. The three U.S. soldiers were part of a small unit that trains Pakistani Frontier Corps responsible for security in northwestern areas near the Afghan border seen as part of a global militant hub. Posted by: ed 2010-02-03 |
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