LANDI KOTAL: At least 25 suspected militants were killed and 15 injured when military planes bombed their hideouts in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency early on Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations said,

It further said that Pakistan Air Force planes targeted the hideouts in Wacha Wana, Mehraban Killay, Dwa Thoe, Rakgall and Tangu areas.

The ISPR claimed that nine militant bases and hideouts had been destroyed in the targeted localities.

The ISPR claim could not be verified independently. The bombing was in retaliation to Sunday’s deadly attack on the Karachi airport carried out by the Tehreek-i-Taliban.

A Jamrud-based resident of Tangu village told Dawn that at least six non-combatants, including women and children, were among the dead.

Sources who did not want to be identified said a bomb struck the house of one Sameed Sherkhan Khel in Tangu at around 1.30am, killing his wife, two sons, two daughters and a niece and leaving three members of the family critically injured.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2014