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| India-Pakistan |
| Pak clashes kill 11 soldiers, 24 militants |
| 2010-12-24 |
| Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Fierce clashes between the Taliban militants and security personnel at five security checkposts in Pakistan's restive northwest left 11 soldiers and 24 militants dead Friday, an official said. Around 150 militants attacked the checkposts in a tribal area of Mohmand Agency in the wee hours of Friday, Online news agency reported quoting security sources. The security forces launched a retaliatory operation with gunship helicopters. As a result, 26 militants and 11 paramilitary troopers killed. About a dozen militants and 10 troopers were also injured in the clashes, the sources said. 'Some 150 suspected militants conducted the raids and fired at five different security checkpoints after midnight,' Major Fazal Ur Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, was quoted as saying by DPA. 'Intense fighting ensued for hours.' The report said the militants left the behind the bodies of their accomplices and fled. The bodies have been taken into custody by the security forces. According to some tribal sources, several troopers were missing after the incident. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the responsibility of the attacks. The outfit said that 12 security personnel were killed in the attack and six bodies of the soldiers are in their custody while two were captured alive. According to Online, TTP spokesman Sajjad Mehmand told BBC that only two of their members were killed in the attacks. He said that the Taliban would also carry out similar attacks in the future. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #1 can the taliban not count? the security forces have the bodies of their dead yet they still bullshit and say only two died. |
| Posted by: chris 2010-12-24 11:51 |