Blast Kills 3 U.S. Service Members In Northwest Pakistan -- Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Three American troops were killed Wednesday in a bombing in the volatile northwest region of Pakistan, a nation where U.S. military involvement is a highly sensitive matter and where American ground personnel rarely suffer casualties.
The attack targeted forces who were part of a contingent of U.S. military trainers. They were traveling to Lower Dir, a district in the North-West Frontier Province that Pakistan's military has said it wrested from Taliban control.
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