Pakistan blast kills US soldiers
by gowtham[ Edit ] 2010-02-03 20:14:08
Three US soldiers were among 10 people killed when a bomb blast hit a convoy near a school in north-west Pakistan.
Three schoolgirls were among the dead while 70 people, including another 63 schoolgirls and two US soldiers, were injured in the explosion in Lower Dir.
The US embassy said the military personnel had been training Pakistan's Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency.
Both governments deny large numbers of US troops are in Pakistan, where public opinion opposes their presence.
The US embassy in Islamabad confirmed in a statement three American military personnel were killed and two wounded in what it branded a "vicious terrorist bombing".
