Twenty-six soldiers, including two officers, were killed and 15 others injured on Saturday when Nato helicopters attacked two security checkposts in a far-flung area near the Pak-Afghan border some 50 kilometres to the west of Mohmand Agency’s headquarters of Ghallanai, official and tribal sources said on Saturday.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), however, confirmed the death of 24 soldiers and injuries to another 13.
All of them belonged to the Azad Kashmir Regiment.
Some of the dead included Major Mujahid, Captain Usman, Subedar Mannan, Havaldar Mumtaz, Havaldar Aslam, Havaldar Mushtaq, Lance Naik Raza Mohammad, Lance Naik Tariq Mehmood and Sepoys Imran Yusuf, Rizwan, Ghulam Abbas, Abdul Razzaq, Hafiz Manzoor, Asghar Abbas, Ahmed Khurshid, Ibrahim, Naeem, Tariq Mehmood, Nasir Mehmood, Kiramat Ali, Najibullah and Tahir Mehmood.
Some of the injured soldiers were identified as Afzal Khan, Kamran, Azim, Waseem, Tanvir Khan, Zubair, Yasir, Akhtar Zaman, Asif, Zahid Shah, Irfan Akhtar and Naveed.
Pakistan army officers and civilians offer funeral prayers of Saturday's NATO attack victims, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. |
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