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Army kills 40 Taliban in Mohmand
[Pak Daily Times] An official said on Saturday that army helicopter gunships and artillery had killed 40 more Orcs and similar vermin on the second day of large-scale fighting near the border with Afghanistan.Top government official in Mohmand, Amjad Ali Khan, said gunships backed by artillery pounded terrorist hideouts on Saturday, killing 40 of them. On Friday, about 150 Taliban staged simultaneous attacks on five paramilitary checkpoints in the Baizai area of Mohmand sparking an hours-long battle that resulted in 11 soldiers being killed and a dozen being maimed. Twenty-four Taliban were also killed in the gunbattles, officials said. Posted by: Fred 2010-12-26 |
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