Taliban kill 14 Pak security personnel, hang up heads

May 08, 2012 00:10

The Taliban killed 14 security personnel and beheaded all but one of them before displaying the heads of two soldiers on wooden poles in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, security officials said today. Nine soldiers were beheaded yesterday when militants overran a security picket in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency.

The Taliban had been firing at the picket for the past few days, the military said. Authorities later found the beheaded bodies of the soldiers, security officials were quoted as saying by the local media. Five soldiers were captured by militants when the military raided a house in Miranshah last night. They were later killed and four of them were beheaded. The heads of two soldiers were hung on poles in Miranshah and the bodies were dumped in the local market.

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