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| Bomb Kills Six in Pakistan Tribal Area |
| 2015-05-12 |
| [AnNahar] bomb kaboom on Monday killed at least six people including a pro-government tribal elder in a restive Pak region near the Afghan border, officials said. The attack took place in the village of Barkamar, part of the Bajaur tribal district where the military has been battling Taliban and other "An improvised bomb planted along the roadside went off as the vehicle of a local pro-government tribal elder, Malik Muhammad Jan, passed by it, leaving him and five others dead," senior district official Fayyaz-ul-Haq Sherpao told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said Malik Muhammad Jan was a leading member of a local peace committee, which in Pakistain work to apprehend Another local official, Shah Nazeer, confirmed the incident and casualty toll. No one has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but the Taliban have often targeted pro-government tribal elders in the area. Bajaur is one of seven semi-autonomous tribal districts along Pakistain's mountainous western border. They became a hotbed of Islamist |
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