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Pakistani troops kill 21 militants

AFP, Peshawar
Pakistani troops yesterday killed 21 militants, including two suicide attackers, in clashes near the Afghan border, a day after a bombing killed 64 people at an arms factory, officials said.
Pakistan's shaky coalition government is struggling with an upsurge in Taliban bloodshed, with Thursday's attack near Islamabad being the second major attack since Pervez Musharraf resigned as president on Monday.
The army said in a statement that 16 "miscreants" were killed in a gunbattle that broke out after they refused to leave a vehicle at a checkpost near the restive northwestern town of Hahgu.
"One individual got down from the vehicle and started moving towards the checkpost. He was cautioned to stop and on refusal was engaged with fire. Resultantly,
he exploded," the statement said.
"The vehicle was engaged with fire by the security forces due to which the vehicle also exploded," likely from the detonation of another suicide bomber's device, the statement said.
One militant was captured alive and the two suicide bombers both appeared to be foreign militants, the statement said, without giving their nationalities.
Local police officer Sher Bahadur, who gave a death toll of 15, told AFP that the militants "hurled grenades and opened fire at the soldiers" after the vehicle was stopped at a checkpost.
Taliban militants besieged a police station and kidnapped several government officials in Hangu in July.
Meanwhile, in the adjoining region of Bajaur, one of Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal zones bordering Afghanistan, military
helicopter gunships killed another five rebels, officials said.
A major military offensive in Bajaur in the last two weeks has left more than 500 people dead, most of them militants, officials say.
Three died when gunships destroyed their vehicles as they were driving outside Khar, the main town in Bajaur, on Friday, a senior security official said on condition of anonymity.
1\vo more militants were killed when gunships targeted a compound in Salarzai village, the official added. In another strike near the same village 11 suspected militants were injured.
A Taliban spokesman said Thursday that the double bombing at the army's main munitions factory in Wah, near Islamabad, was in revenge for the military operation in Bajaur and in the northwestern tourist region of Swat.