By Our Correspondent MIRAMSHAH, Oct 3: Fourteen passengers were killed and five others injured when a coach hit a landmine in the Bulandkhel area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, officials said.
The coach going from Thall to Shewa struck the landmine near the Tauda Cheena Bridge at about 5.30pm. Sources said 12 people died on the spot and two in a hospital, where the five other injured were also under treatment. They said the victims belonged to the Shewa tehsil. Meanwhile, a soldier was injured in an attack on the Datakhel Fort.
AFP adds: The blast targeting the coach happened hours after pro-Taliban militants raided a security checkpost near Mirali in a pre-dawn assault, killing two soldiers and wounding another four, the military said.
“Ten miscreants were killed in the resulting clash,” ISPR spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told AFP.
Security officials in the region said earlier that troops responded with artillery fire after the militants attacked them with rockets.
