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| TTP take 14 police hostage in Buner |
| 2008-08-09 |
| Local Taliban on Friday attacked a security checkpost in the Buner area of Swat and took 14 security personnel hostage, ARY One World reported. According to the channel, the Taliban besieged the Buner police checkpost. The policemen at the checkpost resisted but the Taliban took them hostage. However, locals gathered on the site and had the checkpost vacated from the Taliban. The Taliban took the 14 hostages away with them. Kidnapped: Separately, local Taliban kidnapped two policemen and three drivers carrying supplies to the security forces from the Imam Dheri area in the Swat valley on Friday. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Muslim Khan claimed responsibility for the abduction and said that the Taliban now had around 39 government officials in custody. "We will decide their future in a few days." Local elders attended a jirga for the restoration of peace in Bahrain on Friday. It demanded that security forces abolish their check posts. "We will maintain peace and protect the government property," jirga members said. |
| Posted by:Fred |