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kaboom!at his home, officials said on Wednesday.
Aalim Deen Mehsud, a local commander of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in the North
Wazoo tribal area, was trying to remove kaboom from a mortar shell, triggering the blast, a security official said. "He was trying to cut the shell with a hand saw and take out the explosives when the kaboom occurred, killing himself, four women and a child of his family," the official told AFP. Two other children were maimed in the blast, the official said. A local in the village of Talib Jan, where the incident happened, confirmed the deaths. "Aalim Deen Mehsud and five members of his family have been killed in an kaboom at his house," said Gul Hajjan, a resident of the village which is close to the Afghan border. North Waziristan is one of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions which Washington consider to be a major hub of Taliban and al Qaeda faceless myrmidons plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan. The government opened negotiations with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) last month in a bid to end a bloody insurgency which has cost thousands of lives and cost the economy tens of billions of dollars. The process broke down for more than two weeks after faceless myrmidons killed 23 kidnapped soldiers, but later resumed after the Taliban announced a month-long ceasefire. The Bajaur Levies Force had on Tuesday defused an improvised bomb planted along a road in Kharyan area of Nawagai Tehsil.