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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 18

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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:22 GMT

ISLAMABAD, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1600 GMT on Tuesday.

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HANGU - Suspected Taliban militants gunned down four alleged bandits authorities had been chasing in northwest Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.

The bodies were dumped on the roadside about 70 km (43.50 miles) southwest of Peshawar with a note warning people not to hold funerals for the dead because they were "robbers".

MIRANSHAH - Taliban militants fired rockets on an army camp in the troubled North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, killing three soldiers and seriously wounding three others, local intelligence officials said.

${esc.hash} MIRANSHAH - A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft fired three missiles into a house in North Waziristan, killing at least five militants, local intelligence officials said.

There was no independent confirmation of the incident and militants often dispute official claims.

(Compiled by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Rebecca Conway)

(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/places/pakistan.

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