PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb planted in a vehicle killed six people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday as soldiers killed 13 militants in fresh clashes in the Swat valley where the army has made gains in a three-month offensive.
There has been a lull in militant violence in Pakistan in recent weeks after security forces pushed back Taliban insurgents in their bastion of Swat and stepped up attacks on Pakistani Taliban in the South Waziristan region.
But Monday's blast and the clashes in Swat, which followed two suicide bombings there on the weekend that killed five soldiers, will raise fears that the militants are re-organising.
Three women and two children were among those killed when the bomb hidden in a box of medicine given to the vehicle's driver to deliver went off, police officer Sifwat Ghayyur told reporters at the site of the blast in Charssada town.
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There has been a lull in militant violence in Pakistan in recent weeks after security forces pushed back Taliban insurgents in their bastion of Swat and stepped up attacks on Pakistani Taliban in the South Waziristan region.
But Monday's blast and the clashes in Swat, which followed two suicide bombings there on the weekend that killed five soldiers, will raise fears that the militants are re-organising.
Three women and two children were among those killed when the bomb hidden in a box of medicine given to the vehicle's driver to deliver went off, police officer Sifwat Ghayyur told reporters at the site of the blast in Charssada town.
Jai Hind
Rahul Vallamber
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