Troops attacked

Published June 9, 2006

MIRAMSHAH, June 8: Militants triggered a bomb near a patrol of troops in North Waziristan on Thursday and soldiers opened fire in retaliation, wounding one civilian, an intelligence official said.

The soldiers were on a routine security patrol when the roadside bomb went off in a bazaar in Mir Ali, a town in North Waziristan tribal area, the official said.

No one was injured in the explosion but the passer-by was hit by a bullet when the troops retaliated, he said.—AP

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