Pakistan’s military said Pakistani security forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border Wednesday, triggering a shootout that left eight militants and two children dead and two soldiers wounded.
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It was not clear who led his fire to the killing of the two children during a raid on a settlement site in South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwest of the country.
Pakistani security forces killed ten people, including two children, in a raid on a militant hideout. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
In its statement on the violence, the army did not specify which armed group the dead rebels belonged to.
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South Waziristan served as a base for the Pakistani Taliban and other militants until a few years ago, when the army said it had cleared the area of militants. But the occasional attacks continued.
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The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, is an insurgent group separate from the Afghan Taliban, although Pakistani armed groups are often interlinked with those across the border in Afghanistan.
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