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| Two local employees of the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar have been killed by an explosive device along with some soldiers while on drug-eradication mission, according to John Kerry, the US secretary of state. | |
| Related: The Peshawar women fighting the Taliban: 'We cannot trust anyone' | |
| “Just this morning, I woke to the news that we had lost two local employees in Peshawar who worked with our consulate there who were going out on a effort to eradicate narcotics fields,” Kerry told an event in Washington on Tuesday on countering violent extremism. | “Just this morning, I woke to the news that we had lost two local employees in Peshawar who worked with our consulate there who were going out on a effort to eradicate narcotics fields,” Kerry told an event in Washington on Tuesday on countering violent extremism. |
| “An IED exploded and several were lost; a few of the soldiers who were there to guard them also,” Kerry said. He gave no other details of the incident. | “An IED exploded and several were lost; a few of the soldiers who were there to guard them also,” Kerry said. He gave no other details of the incident. |
| State Department spokesmen did not immediately respond to a request for comment. | State Department spokesmen did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |