Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Three children were killed in a blast in Miranshah in Pakistan's North Waziristan district, said Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), claiming that three soldiers of the Pakistan Army also lost their lives in the explosion.

In a statement, the Pakistan military's media affairs wing identified the soldiers who lost their lives to the blast as 33-year-old Lance Havaldar Zubair Qadir belonging from Pakpattan, 22-year-old Sepoy Qasim Maqsood from Multan, and 21-year-old Sepoy Uzair Asfar from Haripur reported the Dawn newspaper.

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Further, the three children who succumbed to the blast include four-year-old Anum, eight-year-old Ahsan, and 11-year-old Ahmed Hassan.

According to the statement, Pakistan intelligence agencies are probing into the matter in search of the bomber and his facilitators, reported the Dawn newspaper.

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Earlier, two Army soldiers in Pakistan were killed in the South Waziristan district of Sararogha while they were indulged in shooting with the terrorists. (ANI)

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