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Pakistan: Aid Workers Targeted in Militant Attack

Mar 11, 2010 | 00:45 GMT

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Summary

Seven aid workers were killed and six others were injured in a March 10 militant attack on a nongovernmental organization office in the Mansehra district of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. The attackers, which displayed a high level of skill in the assault, most likely were remnants of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Swat trying to re-establish themselves after being swept from the Swat area in 2009.

Seven workers for a U.S.-based aid organization were killed and six others were injured in a militant attack in the Mansehra district of Pakistan. (With STRATFOR map)...

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