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| 9 troops, 6 civilians injured in Waziristan |
| 2007-09-30 |
| Up to nine security personnel and six civilians, including an eight-year-old boy and a woman, were injured in incidents in North Waziristan on Saturday, officials and local residents said. Local residents said six civilians were injured when a public transport vehicle was fired upon by soldiers in the Pattikhel area, 10 kilometres west of Miranshah. Military spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad said he had no information that army soldiers opened fire on the vehicle after it did not stop to allow a military convoy to pass through. Local officials in Mir Ali said militants fired around 30 rockets at an army camp at 3:00am on Saturday, injuring nine soldiers. However, according to Gen Waheed, only “two or three” soldiers were injured, none of them seriously. |
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