12 die in Khyber attacks

Two separate militant attacks left at least 12 people dead, including children, in Pakistan's troubled Khyber tribal district on Saturday, officials said. "At least six people including two children and a woman were killed when a mortar fired by militants fell on a house in Tirah valley," a senior local administration official, Saeed Ahmad Jan, told AFP.
He said that the militants apparently wanted to target a nearby check post of security forces but missed. And in Bara town a group of 20-25 militants from the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) group attacked a checkpost of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, triggering a gunfight. "The exchange of fire left six militants dead and 10 others wounded," Jan said, adding that troops arrested all the injured rebels.