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Sources in northwest Pakistan report at least 60 people have been killed in fresh clashes (in Kurram Agency) between warring tribes and Taliban militants.

Pakistani media quote unnamed sources as saying at least three-quarters of the dead are militants. Another 130 people are reported to have been wounded in the fighting near the border with Afghanistan.

Rival Bangush and Turi tribes have been battling for weeks, and militants have joined that fight.

In another development, security officials in northwest Pakistan say at least four people were killed in an apparent missile strike along the Afghan border.

Residents in the village of Tapi in North Waziristan say an apparent missile (today/Sunday) destroyed a house that was believed to be linked to militants. They say they saw a drone (a pilotless aircraft) shortly before the explosion.