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Militants attack Pakistani border post, kill 19 security personnel
Apr 22, 2011, 6:27 GMT
Islamabad - Hundreds of suspected militants attacked a border post in Pakistan's north-western region along the border with Afghanistan, killing 19 security personnel, a Pakistani official said on Friday.
The incident took place early Thursday in the remote area of Jandool in Lower Dir district when between 500 and 600 militants crossed from the Afghan province of Kunar and attacked the Kharakhai post.
Fazal Karim, a government official in the district, said the post was jointly manned by the paramilitary Frontier Corps, local border security forces and tribal police.
'They fired at the post with heavy weapons for hours. Some security personnel died in the exchange of fire while five were beheaded after the attackers occupied the post,' Karim said.
A Pakistani intelligence official said that the attackers were mostly Pakistani Taliban from the nearby district of Bajaur.
'Some reports indicate that from Bajaur they went to the Afghan province of Kunar and from there they launched the attack with the assistance of Afghan Taliban.'
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