Suspected Taliban militants have handed over the bodies of 17 soldiers killed in an ambush on Saturday in Pakistan's troubled North-West Frontier Province.
Heavily armed rebels holding positions on hilltops ambushed a convoy of paramilitary troops as it was heading to a fort outside the city of Hangu near the border with Afghanistan. The situation in Hangu, some 100 kilometres south of the North-West Frontier Province capital Peshawar, turned violent earlier this week when law enforcers seized seven militants, including a confidant of top Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud.
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