PESHAWAR: Three children were killed and two other members of the family injured when an artillery shell hit a house in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday.

Sources said the incident took place in Mama Ziarat region near the border with Afghanistan. The injured included a man and a woman.

As happened in Miram­shah and Mirali, civilians have not been evacuated from Dattakhel when security forces launched Opera­tion Zarb-i-Azb in North Waziristan in June.

According to reports, a curfew was imposed in Dat­takhel Bazaar on Wednes­day for an indefinite period.

Published in Dawn, November 28th, 2014

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