PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 7, (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 neighbouring 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.
Pakistan, vowing to crush Tehreek-e-Taliban in the region, has claimed a series of successes in its three-week old offensive, in which 446 Taliban fighters and 42 troops have been killed. |
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