Mortar kills 2 children, mother in Pakistan

A mortar struck a home and killed two children and their mother in a northwestern Pakistani region where security forces are carrying out a "targeted operation " against the Pakistani Taliban, residents and a hospital official said on Wednesday.

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It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the overnight civilian casualties in Mamund, a town in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.

Naseeb Gul, a medical doctor at a local hospital, said the dead were two children and their mother. Two people were also wounded Tuesday when another mortar hit their home, he said.