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Roadside bomb kills four in north-west Pakistan
Oct 25, 2011, 9:08 GMT
Islamabad - At least four people were killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing in a district of north-western Pakistan along the Afghan border, a government official said.
The bomb was planted in the Ghura Banda area near Samar Bagh in Lower Dir district, said Fazal Karim, an official in the district police office.
He said the identities of the victims were not immediately known, given the remoteness of the bomb site.
Pakistan's security forces claimed they had cleared the Dir region of militants several times, but the guerillas are believed to have fled to the mountains to continue attacks on civilians and government officials. Some of them have taken shelter in Afghanistan, from which they conduct cross-border raids into Dir.
General Saqib Rasheed, operational commander of Dir, said Monday, 'Forces successfully completed a 40-day-long search operation in the different areas of the district and established pickets to stop the movement of militants from the Afghan side.'
The operation resulted in a high death toll with Rasheed saying 172 civilians and security personnel were slain and 70 militants killed.
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