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| Pakistani soldier killed in rocket attack |
| 2006-04-02 |
| A rocket attack by pro-Taliban tribal militants near the Afghan border killed one Pakistani soldier and wounded four others, security officials said on Sunday. The attack on Saturday night targeted a fort in the Dattakhel area, some 30 km (19 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a semi-autonomous Pashtun tribal region at the center of the Pakistan army‘s campaign to drive out nests of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. "The dead man is a soldier of the Pakistan army, and among the wounded one are an army captain and three militiamen," an official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters. Security forces returned fire but the attackers escaped in the darkness and it was unknown if they suffered any casualties. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |