Fourteen troops killed in Pakistan

Pakistan's security forces suffered heavy casualties on Monday night when at least 14 of their soldiers were killed in a militants' ambush, a media report said.

Pakistan's security forces suffered heavy casualties on Monday night when at least 14 of their soldiers were killed in a militants' ambush, a media report said.

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The incident occurred when militants attacked security forces in Akakhel area of Khyber Agency, a tribal area that falls in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.

The soldiers, including a captain and colonel, died as a mortar shell landed near them, Dawn reported.

Security forces had been conducting an operation in the area for past several days and had arrested a number of rebels, sources said.