Airstrikes killed 34 militants in the Kyhber tribal border region near Afghanistan, the Pakistani military said Wednesday. The strikes follow Sundays deadly suicide attack on a Christian Church in Lahore that killed 17.
Wednesday's airstrikes targeted the Pakistani Taliban and its allies who are based in the remote Tirah Valley west of the city of Pesharwar near the Afghan frontier.
The military claimed 34 militants had been killed but tribal sources on the ground told Reuters the death toll was lower.
"My elder brother said he had personally seen militants shifting bodies of the slain fighters to upper Tirah from Sandasa and nearby villages," Abdur Rashid, a tribesman displaced by the fighting, told Reuters by telephone. "Local militants of Lashkar-e-Islam told them 20 people were killed."
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