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Landmine kills four Pakistani children Oct 01 (AFP) Four school children were killed and one seriously wounded near the Afghan border Friday when a landmine believed to have been planted by militants to target Pakistani troops exploded, residents and officials said. Five children, aged between 10 and 14, were walking to school in the northwestern tribal region when they triggered the landmine hidden on the road at Sarvakai, 60 kilometers (38 miles) east of Wana, the main town in the restive South Waziristan region, resident Saifur Rehman told reporters. "The children were going to school when they picked up a landmine which was planted by militants for sabotage activity to target security forces," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP. Two of the children were initially killed by the blast and two later died in hospital, Sultan said. He said security forces were later involved in a shootout with militants during which one man was killed and another wounded and arrested. "Both the foreign terrorists were planting an explosive device on a road when security forces surrounded them... (and) opened fire," he said. |
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