Six dead in attacks on air force bases in Pakistan's Quetta

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By Gul Yousufzai QUETTA Pakistan (Reuters) - Six militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces were wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the strategic west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday night's attacks but the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out the two previous raids. Pakistan's military is fighting an offensive against the Taliban insurgency in the remote, largely lawless region of North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border. Police said three attackers were killed at the Samungi air force base, which shares a runway with the civilian airport in Quetta, a strategic city that has long been used by both the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.

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