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By Jibran Ahmed PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb planted by suspected Taliban insurgents ripped through a truck carrying troops in Pakistan's tribal region on Thursday, killing nine soldiers and wounding more than a dozen, officials said, with the death toll expected to rise. The daylight attack, one of the biggest on Pakistani security forces in months, deals a major blow to the army at a time when Pakistan is already under strong U.S. pressure to do more to contain the insurgency on its western frontier. The army said the bomb was planted in a truck carrying soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps. \"The paramilitary forces were doing some internal movements along the Afghan border when their pickup truck was blown up,\" a senior military official based in Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan, said.
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