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Clashes in Tirah kill four soldiers, 14 suspected militants: officials
[Dawn] Fourteen bully boyz have been killed in an offensive against bully boyz in Khyber tribal region's Tirah Valley, security officials said on Friday.The festivities have also left four soldiers dead and five others maimed, the officials told Dawn.com. The Frontier Corps media spokesperson, Major Fazl also confirmed that four soldiers were killed in the shootout while five others were maimed. Three bully boy bases were also destroyed in the offensive, the officials said. The festivities in the valley had also left two members of a peace committee dead as bully boyz set ablaze a number of houses of the rustics opposing their presence in the valley. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... in reaction to the offensive, bully boyz resorted to a rocket attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. City. Four rockets from "In all, four rockets were fired from the tribal areas. Three of the rockets went kaboom!while one landed in the open and but failed to explode. The rocket was defused by the bomb disposal squad," Tatara cop shoppe official ASI, Mahsal Khan told. He said that one rocket landed near the cop shoppe, the other near a park while one hit the residential area, leaving some people injured. The Hayatabad Medical Complex officials confirmed that six people including four children were brought to the hospital where one has died. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-06 |
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