Information About Incident 64626-130636-331255 in Sahiwal Pakistan

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A drone strike in Shawal valley of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on July 28 killed three al Qaeda operatives who ran a training camp in neighbouring Afghanistan to prepare militants for attacks, including July 29's jail break in Dera Ismail Khan, Daily Times quoting an unnamed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander' reported on July 31.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Shawal Afghanistan Dera Ismail Khan Tehreek
• Matched District: Sahiwal
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: A drone strike in Shawal valley of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA )
• Subject: three al Qaeda operatives who ran a training camp in neighbouring Afghanistan

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A drone strike in Shawal valley of North Waziristan Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on July 28 killed three al Qaeda operatives who ran a training camp in neighbouring Afghanistan to prepare militants for attacks, including July 29 s jail break in Dera Ismail Khan, Daily Times quoting an unnamed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander reported on July 31. The commander said that those killed in the strike included three al Qaeda training experts who had crossed the border from Afghanistan to look at ways of setting up a similar camp on Pakistani territory. The TTP source identified the three as Abu Rashid from Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Ilyas Kuwaiti from Kuwait and Muhammad Sajid Yamani from Yemen.

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