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Summary At least 10 security personnel and 25 militants were killed in an armed clash in Kurram Agency.
Dozens of heavily armed Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani military post on Tuesday, sparking clashes that killed ten soldiers and wounded 32, the military said.The fighting took place in the same Jogi area as clashes that killed six soldiers on January 25 in the district of Kurram, part of Pakistans lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border.After those clashes, security forces had claimed to have taken control.A senior military official told AFP that more than 300 Taliban attacked the check post at around midnight in central Kurram, which is on the Taliban route into North Waziristan and onto the Afghan border.Pakistani security forces retaliated and killed around 25 militants, but ten soldiers were also killed and 32 others wounded, the official said.
