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Air raid 'kills five in Pakistan'

Source: BBC

Islamabad : Pakistan | 5 months ago

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At least five people have been killed in an airstrike on suspected militant targets in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan, local officials say. Pilotless US drone aircraft are thought to have carried out the attack in which missiles were fired at a house near the town of Wana on the Afghan border....

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