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PARACHINAR, Pakistan — Militants ambushed Pakistani security forces at checkpoints in two regions close to the Afghan border Saturday, sparking gunbattles that left 22 insurgents and two soldiers dead, officials said.
Elsewhere in the northwest, a suicide bomber killed a police officer and three passers- by, part of a relentless wave of violence by al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents.
Government officials said two soldiers were wounded in the clashes at checkpoints in the Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions. They said a search and clearance operation launched afterward also seized 25 suspected insurgents.
