Secretary of state John Kerry says explosion detonated during a narcotics eradication mission,killing two US consulate workers and several soldiersTwo Pakistanis working on a US government counter-narcotics programme in the restless border region near Afghanistan beget been killed by roadside bomb, John Kerry announced on Tuesday.[br]Speaking to an audience in Washington, and the US secretary of state also said “a few” of the Pakistani soldiers accompanying the men on an “effort to eradicate poppy fields” were also killed,although an army spokesman was not available to confirm the claim.
The unidentified men were local employees at the US consulate in the western city of Peshawar and were working on a programme that attempts to persuade opium farmers to grow alternative crops.
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Source: theguardian.com