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8 insurgents, 2 kids dead in Pakistani military raid near Afghan border

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Pakistani security forces attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border Wednesday, prompting a shootout that killed eight of the insurgents and two children and wounded two soldiers, the military said.

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It was unclear whose fire killed the two children during the raid on the outpost in South Waziristan, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Pakistani security forces killed ten people, including two, children, in a raid on an insurgent hideout. (ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

The military, in its statement about the violence, did not identify the militant group to which the slain insurgents belonged.

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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 cleared the region of insurgents. But occasional attacks have continued.

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The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, are a separate insurgent group from the Afghan Taliban, although Pakistan’s militant groups are often interlinked with those across the border in Afghanistan.

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