Last Updated: Thursday, 28 February 2008, 09:55 GMT - BBC News
At least 12 people, including suspected militants, have died in a missile attack on a house in a Pakistan village near the Afghan border, reports say.
The house in Kalosha village, in the troubled South Waziristan region, was destroyed, officials and residents say.
It is not clear where the missile was fired from, but residents said they suspected it was from Afghanistan where Nato troops are fighting the Taleban.
Last month, an al-Qaeda leader died in a similar attack in a nearby region.
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29 militants killed in south Afghanistan
By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer
4:23 am EST Thu 28 Feb 2008
A militant ambush of an opium poppy eradication force sparked clashes that left 25 Taliban fighters and a policeman dead, a provincial police chief said Thursday. Four other militants died when a bomb went off.
Insurgents ambushed the drug eradication force Wednesday in Marja district of Helmand province killing one police officer and wounding two, said Gen. Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, the provincial police chief.
Police attacked the militants afterward, killing 25 Taliban fighters, including a senior regional militant commander, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
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