NATIONAL SECURITY

Pakistan Begins to Demolish Bin Laden Compound

Updated: May 29, 2013 | 9:16 p.m.
February 25, 2012 | 12:09 p.m.

Pakistan has started to demolish the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces last May, the Associated Press reports.

Three backhoes were brought in to demolish the Abottabad, Pakistan, compound, local residents told the AP.

Bin Laden was believed to have lived in that compound for years.

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