Four soldiers killed

Four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed on Monday when militants attacked their convoy in the north-western tribal district of Khyber, officials said. The attackers opened fire on the paramilitary convoy in the Nala area, five kilometres (three miles) west of Bara, the district headquarters of Khyber. "The militants opened fire at the convoy when it passed from the area and killed four security persons," Rehan Gul Khattak, a local administration official told AFP.