(19.12.) Residents said that after the attack soldiers fired at two hotels near the town of Mirali where stranded truckers were spending the night. The reports could not be immediately confirmed. Residents said that numerous drivers and locals were killed in the Dolat Khan and Honeymoon hotels.

In another incident, security forces launched an assault in North Waziristan after receiving information that militants in the Mir Ali area were in the process of building vehicle-borne suicide bombs, according to an Islamabad-based security official. He said 10 insurgents were killed.