Villagers in Pakistan strike back at Taliban...

Hundreds of Pakistanis angry over a mosque bomb attack have banded together to attack Taliban strongholds in a troubled northwest region, killing at least four militants. 

Some 400 villagers from Upper Dir district's Haya Gai area, where a suicide bomber killed 33 worshippers at a mosque on Friday, formed a militia and attacked five villages in the neighbouring Dhok Darra area, said Atif-ur-Rehman, the district coordination officer. 

He said the citizens' militia has occupied three of the villages and are trying to push the Taliban out of other two. 

Some 20 houses suspected of harbouring Taliban were destroyed, he said. 

The government has in the past encouraged local citizens to set up militias, known as lashkars, to oust Taliban fighters.

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