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DJMN: Taliban Attack Kills Three Pakistani Soldiers -Officials
PESHAWAR (AFP)--Taliban militants killed three Pakistani soldiers in an assault on a check post in the northwest as the military pressed its ground and air offensive, officials said Saturday.
The militants launched a rocket and gun attack on a paramilitary post in Torawari area of Hangu district late Friday, a security official said.
Three soldiers were killed in the raid, he said.
A senior police official said the attackers were Taliban militants who came from the neighboring tribal region of Kurram.
Security forces based in a nearby fort responded by killing at least six attackers, police and military officials said.
The attack came as Pakistan's military continued a major ground and air offensive against Taliban strongholds in the lawless South Waziristan region near the Afghan border.
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November 07, 2009 03:54 ET (08:54 GMT)
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