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Anti-Taliban leaders attacked

Militants in Pakistan yesterday stormed the homes of two anti-Taliban elders, killing one of them, police said, as the death toll from a bomb in the northwestern city of Peshawar rose to 15.

About 50 militants with the banned Lashkar-e-Islam extremist group attacked the house of mayor Fahimuddin in Bazid Khel village on Peshawar's outskirts. Karim Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar, said three militants were killed in the clash with Fahimuddin's militia. Later yesterday in the nearby district of Bajaur, dozens of Taliban rebels raided the home of pro-government tribal elder Malik Sher Zaman - who had also formed a militia - killing him at his residence in Mamond town.