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Twelve Pakistani soldiers killed in TTP attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
At least 12 soldiers were killed in an ambush by the the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in northwest of the country on Saturday, AFP reported citing government officials.
A military convoy was passing through a town in South Waziristan district at around 4:00 am when “armed men opened fire from both sides with heavy weapons”, killing 12 security personnel and wounding four, a local government official said.
A security officer stationed in the area confirmed the death toll and said the attackers had seized the convoy’s weapons.
TTP claimed responsibility for the attack in a message on social media.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in months in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the TTP once controlled swaths of territory until they were pushed back by a military operation that began in 2014.