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...gunfire. The next morning, a policeman reports that soldiers killed six "hard-core" militants during the search and a subsequent skirmish; three soldiers were injured. Four of the dead are later identified as Shawkat Ahmed, Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Sultan and Altaf Ahmed, all from the neighboring area of Rafiaabad. (The two others are not named.) District magistrate Sheikh Mohammed Hussain later admits the four were unarmed civilians, and promises $2,123 to each of their families as compensation and a job to a relative of one of the dead men. But he refuses to investigate the incident officially. The townspeople...
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