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ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 (KUNA) -- Over 12 militants and civilians were killed and
more than 10 others were wounded in two separate incidents; a military
operation against militants in a tribal agency and a bomb explosion in a
northern town, said officials.
A remote-controlled roadside bomb blew up a vehicle in Jani Khel area of
Dera Ismail Khan District in northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police
sources told KUNA. They said the explosion killed two people and wounded four
others.
Some local media said that the target was an army vehicle and that those
killed included a Captain, and security personnel were also among the wounded.
Meanwhile in a separate incident, security forces killed more than ten
militants in an operation in Upper Orakzai tribal agency.
Security officials said that military helicopters pounded suspected
militant hideouts in several areas of the agency and killed ten militants.
More than six others were also wounded, added the officials.(end)
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