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| General wounded in firing at army chopper in Lower Dir |
| 2011-09-22 |
| ISLAMABAD: A top Pakistani military commander was shot in the thigh Wednesday when his helicopter came under fire near the Swat valley where troops fought off a Taliban insurgency two years ago. Major General Javed Iqbal, one of PakistanÂ’s top commanders in the northwest, was airborne when gunfire from the ground hit his helicopter in the mountainous village of Nusrat Darra in the district of Upper Dir. Security officials had initially said the helicopter was hit in Swat. Officials said the general was taking an aerial view of troop deployment. Another senior security official in Swat said two bullets hit the helicopter but that it landed safely. A third security official told AFP that a bullet hit the generalÂ’s right thigh and that was taken to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad. |
| Posted by:Steve White |