PAKISTAN: FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, June 30
Posted by warvictims on July 1, 2009
Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:30pm IST
June 30 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0930 GMT on Tuesday.
QUETTA – A car bomb killed four people and wounded three in a town in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, said senior police official Ghulam Rasool. No one claimed responsibility, but previous such attacks have been blamed on Baluch separatist militants.
PESHAWAR – A mortar bomb fired by security forces aimed at a militant hideout struck a house in the Khyber tribal region overnight, killing seven civilians, senior government official Azam Khan Khalil said.
MIRANSHAH – Army helicopter gunships targeted militant hideouts in Dattakhel village, in the North Waziristan tribal region, where pro-Taliban fighters killed 16 troops in an ambush on a military convoy on Sunday, intelligence officials said. There was no immediate word on casualties. (Reporting by Gul Yousafzai and Haji Mujtaba; Compiled by Augustine Anthony; Editing by Jason Subler and Sanjeev Miglani)
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