At least 15 people were killed in a rocket attack, executions carried out by suspected Taliban militants, and bombardment by warplanes in north-west, officials and media reports said on Sunday. Militant fired four rockets on various locations in Bannu district late on Saturday.
"Two of these were aimed at city police station, but missed the target and hit a construction company office. Two of its employees were killed," said a police officer Zaheer Ahmad.
The other two rockets landed close to a private hospital and in a football ground, causing no damage. The authorities in North Waziristan discovered on Sunday the bodies of two men shot dead by militants on suspicion of spying for US forces, a local security official said.
"Anyone spying for the Americans will meet the same fate," read a note left with the dumped bodies. Pakistani jet fighters pounded various hideouts of rebels in Bajaur, leaving four Taliban and a civilian dead.
The shelling also injured eight people, an Urdu language TV channel reported, citing official sources.
In the restive Swat district, a former local councillor, Faridoon, and his son Karmullah were killed by unknown gunmen. A local police official said the bodies of two men were dumped near their residence in Mingora. Four people from the same family, including a woman, died when a stray mortar shell hit a house in Swat, the TV channel reported.
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