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| Two detained aides to radical cleric Sufi Mohammad have been killed during a militant ambush in Pakistan's Swat valley, the country's military says. | |
| The pair, arrested on Friday, died when rebels attacked a convoy transporting prisoners to Peshawar, officials said. | The pair, arrested on Friday, died when rebels attacked a convoy transporting prisoners to Peshawar, officials said. |
| The men - Muhammad Alam and Ameer Izzat Khan - were senior aides to Sufi Mohammed, the father-in-law of the Taliban leader in the Swat valley. | |
| The army said one soldier was also killed in the attack. | The army said one soldier was also killed in the attack. |
| Military officials said suspected Taliban rebels ambushed the prisoner convoy en route to Peshawar early on Saturday. | |
| There was a gun battle between rebels and security forces, with at least one report suggesting the convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. | |
| Muhammad Alam and Ameer Izzat Khan were among six men arrested on Friday along with another aide to Sufi Mohammad and three Afghan nationals. | |
| They were held as the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, visited Pakistan to visit people displaced by recent fighting in the Swat region between Pakistan's army and Taliban militants. | |
| The BBC's M Ilyas Khan, in Islamabad, said they were the only significant arrests since the army launched its latest operation against militants in the Swat region one month ago. |