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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Waziristan violence round-up |
| 2004-10-25 |
| Three personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were injured in an explosion caused by a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) in Makeen in South Waziristan on Sunday while the brother of a pro-government tribal elder was killed in a land-mine blast in the same area. Elsewhere in the restive tribal agency, troops recovered some more weapons while searching tribal homes in the former militants' stronghold of Spinkai Raghzai and a Jirga of elders of the three Mahsud sub-tribes in Barwand reiterated their support to the ongoing military operations to hunt down foreign militants. The IED explosion that caused injuries to the three paramilitary troops of Swat Scouts occurred in almost the same place in Widhan on the Makeen-Razmak road where a similar blast the day before had killed a Frontier Corps Jawan and injured three of his colleagues. Tribal sources said the jeep carrying the Swat Scouts militiamen was on its way from Makeen to Razmak when it was blown up by the remote-controlled IED explosion and badly damaged. Naib Subedar Jehangir and Sepoys Sardar Khan and Mumtaz Khan, who received injuries, were evacuated by helicopter to the Combined Military Hospital in Bannu. Two of them were stated to be in critical condition. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |