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Summary Insurgents and security personnel are continually exchanging fire in Upper Dir.
Hundreds of insurgents attacked a check post of the security forces at 3am and sieged a joint check post of Levies and police in Brawal tehsil of Upper Dir. The fresh contingents of security forces took positions as firing from both sides continued. A tribal elder, Malik Akhal Zareen, said that there were more than 600 assailants who had torched a school and a police station before assailing the post.Separately, seven people, including two women, were killed in a tribal dispute in Dobando area of Barwal. The local administration had closed the main market, fearing an untoward incident.
