Pak Taliban beheads 12 soldiers

August 31, 2012 23:24

Pakistani Taliban have beheaded 12 soldiers captured during a recent attack on a security check post in the restive Bajaur tribal region and released a video showing their severed heads, a spokesman of the outfit said.

Sirajuddin, a spokesman for the Swat chapter of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, told reporters in the country's northwest by phone that the terrorists had released a video showing the severed heads of the soldiers.

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