PESHAWAR, KOMPAS.com - Three people including two paramilitary soldiers were killed in roadside bomb explosion in northwestern Pakistan's tribal district of Orakzai, Saturday (22/01/2011), officials said. A homemade bomb planted by militants exploded in the town Ibrahimzai when a routine patrol paramilitary soldiers passed by, said a security officer. "Two soldiers and a civilian were killed in the blast," said Abdul Qadir, a local government official told AFP. Seven other people - a soldier and six civilians - were wounded in the blast near the market in Ibrahimzai it, he said. A military officer in the provincial capital Peshawar confirmed the incident. He also said the injured were taken to local hospitals. Orakzai is one of many regions do not obey the law in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, which comprises seven districts near the Afghan border. Washington tasting semi-autonomous tribal belt as a center of Al-Qaeda and its allies who fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan launched a major operation in Orakzai March last year after insurgents fled the attacks in the tribal district near the South Waziristan. Last year, military officials said Orakzai lowlands have been cleared, but the threat of guerrillas still survive in some pockets of the top region. Around 4,000 people have been killed in militant attacks in Pakistan since July 2007.
ANT, AFP, AP
