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Pak militants destroy key NATO supply bridge
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:16:15 GMT
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Supply trucks heading towards Landi Kotal with supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Militants blow up a key bridge on a Pak-Afghan highway in the Khyber Agency in Pakistan suspending a NATO supply line to Afghanistan.

The incident happened Friday evening hours after US President Barack Obama announced his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan to defeat Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Local officials told Press TV that militants detonated the key bridge with explosives in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency.

Earlier, in the same area, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque during Friday prayers, killing dozens of worshipers.

In another incident, at least one militant was killed in a clash between Taliban militants and security forces in Swat valley in northwest Pakistan.

The clash, which lasted for an hour, was the first after Taliban militants and Pakistan's government signed a peace deal last month in the Swat valley.

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