MIRAMSHAH: Several suspected militants were killed in an offensive by PAF jets in the troubled North Waziristan tribal region in the small hours of Sunday, sources said.

They said that Uzbek and Mehsud militants were killed in the attack which also left an unspecified number of women and children dead.

The sources said that at least five militant hideouts and a number of houses had been destroyed in shelling in Degan area of Dattakhel.

News channels put the number of those killed at over 100, claiming that the mastermind of the attack on the Karachi airport had also been killed.

Published in Dawn, June 15th, 2014

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