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| 6 children wounded after school bus hits mine in South Waziristan |
| 2006-03-27 |
| Six children were wounded when their school minibus hit a land mine in a troubled Pakistani tribal area on Monday, officials in the area said. Local government officials suspected the mine could have been planted by tribal militants supporting al Qaeda and Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas. Two of the children were in a critical condition, said one official, who requested anonymity. The children were on their way to school at Shakai, 47 miles northwest of Tank town, in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Last week, the Pakistani military reported that troops were believed to have killed up to 20 militants in clashes in neighboring North Waziristan. Around 200 tribesmen were killed in fighting with the army in North Waziristan earlier this month after they answered a call to arms by militant Muslim clerics following a special forces assault on an al Qaeda camp. On Thursday President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, warned foreign militants hiding in the tribal region to leave Pakistan or face annihilation. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |