Taliban Bodies Are 'Returned To Pakistan For Burial' -- BBC
The bodies of nine Taliban fighters, who slipped over the border and attacked a Nato convoy in Afghanistan, have been returned to Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area for burial.
They were part of a 50-member group of fighters loyal to militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.
Many vehicles were torched in the attack on the convoy in Afghanistan's Khost province two weeeks ago.
But the fighters were killed in a Nato air raid that followed the attack.
Residents in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, told the BBC that the dead fighters were between 15 and 25 years old and were from the area.
They said the bodies were badly charred and barely identifiable.
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