63 killed in Bajaur fighting

PESHAWAR - At least 13 members of a family including women and children were killed as a result of bombing at a village in Bajaur Agency while 50 Taliban were killed during fierce clashes between security forces and militants on Monday.

According to details, during bombing at the suspected hideouts and bases of Taliban in different areas of Bajaur Agency, several mortars landed into the house of a tribesman Tasleem. As a result, 13 family members were killed.

The eyewitnesses informed that the house was razed to the ground and no one survived. Later, the local tribesmen rushed to the site where they recovered the dead bodies from the debris.

The local officials and tribesmen in Bajaur Agency informed that Taliban attacked the check posts of security forces in Sikandaro and Tor Ghundai areas of Bajaur Agency.

The officials claimed that both the attacks were repulsed with inflicting heavy human and logistic losses to Taliban side. They claimed that 50 miscreants were killed and several others got injured during these clashes.