Roadside bomb kills four troops

A roadside bomb Tuesday killed four troops and wounded three others in the north-western tribal belt along the Afghan border, officials said. "It was a remote-controlled bomb blast," Mir Chaman Khan, a local police officer told, AFP by telephone.
A senior military official in Peshawar confirmed the attack saying that the target was a paramilitary convoy travelling to Parachinar, the main town in Kurram tribal district. A campaign of suicide attacks and bombings blamed on al Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist Islamist groups has killed more than 3,200 people in less than three years across the nuclear-armed country of 167 million.