Pakistan: Taliban Assault 35 dead
Taliban militants killed at least nine soldiers and four paramilitary troops in an attack on a Pakistani Army base in northwestern Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Ten civilians, including three women and three children who were living in a nearby compound, were also killed. The brazen assault took place in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province and comes just a day after a suicide bombing near a mosque in another northwestern town, Hangu, killed at least 26 people. A spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility and said the attack was to avenge the death of two Taliban commanders who were killed in American drone strikes. According to initial details, Taliban militants, armed with heavy machine guns, fired rockets in the predawn assault at the base in Serai Norang in the Lakki Marwat district, setting off a heavy gun battle that lasted for several hours. A Pakistani Army official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 12 militants were killed in the assault. "Bodies of four terrorists, out of which two were wearing suicide jackets, are in custody of security forces," the official said. Eighteen security forces officials were wounded in the attack and were sent for treatment to a military hospital in Peshawar, the provincial capital. During the attack, one of the suicide bombers entered a house near the camp and detonated his explosives, killing the women and children, the official said ...
http://wn.com/Pakistan_Taliban_Assault_35_dead Taliban militants killed at least nine soldiers and four paramilitary troops in an attack on a Pakistani Army base in northwestern Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Ten civilians, including three women and three children who were living in a nearby compound, were also killed. The brazen assault took place in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province and comes just a day after a suicide bombing near a mosque in another northwestern town, Hangu, killed at least 26 people. A spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility and said the attack was to avenge the death of two Taliban commanders who were killed in American drone strikes. According to initial details, Taliban militants, armed with heavy machine guns, fired rockets in the predawn assault at the base in Serai Norang in the Lakki Marwat district, setting off a heavy gun battle that lasted for several hours. A Pakistani Army official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 12 militants were killed in the assault. "Bodies of four terrorists, out of which two were wearing suicide jackets, are in custody of security forces," the official said. Eighteen security forces officials were wounded in the attack and were sent for treatment to a military hospital in Peshawar, the provincial capital. During the attack, one of the suicide bombers entered a house near the camp and detonated his explosives, killing the women and children, the official said
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