Suspected drone attack kills 13 in N Waziristan

  Updated at: 1745 PST, Wednesday, January 06, 2010  

  SLAMABAD:

Two suspected U.S. drone missile strikes have killed at least 13 people in volatile North Waziristan near the Afghan border, Geo News reported Wednesday.

A suspected drone fired two missiles at a house in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan in the first attack Wednesday, killing seven people.

Another strike occurred as locals were retrieving bodies from the rubble of the house, killing five people. The identities of those killed in the attacks were unknown.

Blast at Pakistani military school kills three

Press TV, Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:46:21 GMT

 
Kashmir was split into two in the bloody aftermath of independence from British rule over the subcontinent in 1947.
At least three security personnel have been killed after a bomb ripped through an army barracks in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, a police official has said.

The bomb exploded on Tuesday in Tarar Khal, 150 kilometers east of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and near the line of control with Indian-administered Kashmir.

"It was a bomb blast. It could be a blast, but we are still collecting evidence," senior police official Irfan Masaood Kishvi told AFP by telephone from the nearby town of Pallandri.

Other sources said at least eleven people have been injured during the attack.

"The injured have been taken to the Combined Military Hospital," Kishvi said.

According to an official count, more than 47,000 people have been killed during operations of militant groups against New Delhi's rule over Indian Kashmir.

The territory is divided between Pakistan and India, and both claim it in its entirety. The two neighbors have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir after gaining independence from Britain in 1947.

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