MIRAMSHAH: A bomb attack on Monday wounded at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hotspot of Waziristan on the Afghan border, officials said.
The device was detonated by remote control as a military vehicle passed through the Sararogha village area in the mountains of South Waziristan, which is part of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal district.
“At least 10 soldiers were wounded, three of them seriously,” a security official told AFP.
A local intelligence official confirmed the bomb blast and casualties.
Pakistan carried out a sweeping offensive in 2009 in South Waziristan targeting the country's main Taliban faction, but many of their commanders and foot soldiers are believed to have fled to neighbouring North Waziristan.
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