ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani safety forces attacked a militant hideout close to the Afghan border Wednesday, prompting a shootout that killed eight of the insurgents and two youngsters and wounded two troopers, the army mentioned.
It was unclear whose hearth killed the 2 youngsters in the course of the raid on the outpost in South Waziristan, a district within the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The army, in its assertion in regards to the violence, didn’t determine the militant group to which the slain insurgents belonged.
South Waziristan served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban and different militants till a number of years in the past, when the military mentioned it cleared the area of insurgents. However occasional assaults have continued.
The Pakistani Taliban, often known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, are a separate rebel group from the Afghan Taliban, though Pakistan’s militant teams are sometimes interlinked with these throughout the border in Afghanistan.