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Monday, 20 May 2013

Mortar kills woman, 3 children in Pakistan

Reported by: AP/UNBconnect
Reported on: July 15, 2012 22:36 PM
Reported in: International

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 15 (AP/UNB) - Police say a mortar round has hit a house belonging to a paramilitary soldier in northwestern Pakistan, killing his wife and three of his children.

Police official Inayatullah Khan says the soldier in the Frontier Corps, Dolat Mir, was wounded in the incident Sunday in Mera Sheikhan village near the Khyber tribal area.

Mir's son and two daughters who were killed were between the ages of one and seven.

Khan said it is unclear who fired the mortar.

The military has been conducting operations against Islamist militants in Khyber.

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