Two soldiers were killed and four others injured in separate roadside bomb blasts Thursday in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The first crudely made bomb, near Saidgi village in the North Waziristan tribal, belt killed one trooper and injured another while they were fetching water from a stream, a security official told AFP.
The second bomb, planted on a roadside in Bakakhel village, exploded as a military convoy passed, killing a soldier and injuring three others, the official said. Suspected pro-Taliban militants regularly attack troops in the area.
US officials say al Qaeda and Taliban militants who infiltrated Pakistan's tribal belt after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in late 2001 have regrouped in North Waziristan.