ISLAMABAD - Two Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday in a suicide car bombing near the remote town of Tank in the North- West Frontier Province, police said.The bomber rammed his explosive laden car head-on into the pilot vehicle of a military convoy that was returning to the South Waziristan tribal region after escorting an army unit to the city of Dera Ismail Khan. In total, three people including the attacker were killed immediately and six troopers were wounded, Dera Ismail Khan District Police Officer Abdul Rasheed told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Rasheed said the bombing took place at Purana Baddakhel Adda area just five kilometres from Tank. The authorities have also recovered the blown-off head and body parts of the suicide bomber, he added. The midday attack came in an area where a cell of suicide bombers thought to have been sent by a local Taleban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, carried out strikes in recent days to avenge the last monthÂ’s government aerial raid on the hideout of foreign militants and their local facilitators.