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| India-Pakistan |
| Taleban kill 5 soldiers near Peshawar |
| 2013-05-18 |
| ISLAMABAD - Five security personnel were killed and six inured in an attack by Taleban militants on Engineer BattalionÂ’s vehicle near Sara Khawara area in Mattani on the border of the restive Dara Adamkhel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The militants also attacked on Thursday night police armoured personnel carrier injuring four police officials just a few yards away from the site of the first attack. Official sources said the convoy was ambushed near Sara Khawara area with rockets and then the miscreants opened fire on it, killing five soldiers of the Engineer Battalion on the spot and injuring six others. In a separate incident also in the same area, the militants lobbed a hand grenade on an APC of Mattani police, which was on routine patrolling, and then opened indiscriminate gunfire on it. Four policemen were injured in the attack, who were later shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar for treatment. |
| Posted by:Steve White |