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Five Pakistani soldiers killed in attack on military post
Militants attacked a military post in northwest Pakistan on Saturday morning using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, Pakistan’s army said.
The incident was carried out by six attackers, the military’s media wing said in a statement, without naming the militant group responsible for the attack.
“The terrorists rammed an explosive laden vehicle into the post, followed by multiple suicide bombing attacks, which led to collapse of portion of a building, resulting into Shahadat (martyrdom) of five,” the statement said.
Residents in Waziristan, an area bordering Afghanistan in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told Reuters an explosion shook doors and damaged windows around the time of the start of the attack.