ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb 20 (AFP) - At least 30 militants were killed in an air strike by the Pakistani military on their hideout in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan today, the military said.
The attack took place in South Waziristan district where the military in October launched an air and ground offensive to flush out Taliban militants. The "hideout in Shawal mountains was targeted after a tip off received that terrorists were hiding there," the military said in a statement.
The death toll could not be verified independently as the area is under military operations. Meanwhile, three policemen were wounded in a gunfight today when two suicide bombers stormed into a police station in a northwestern Pakistani town.
One of the attackers was shot dead and the other fled after they tried to enter the police station in Mansehra, station chief Waheed Khan told AFP. |
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