Two Frontier Corps soldiers and 10 militants were killed while four soldiers injured in an attack on a checkpost in the Speenwam area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said. “Security forces killed 10 militants after repelling the attack,” he added. Several civilians were reported dead when their vehicle hit a suspected landmine in the Orakzai tribal region. Arshad said the vehicle carrying civilians to North Waziristan from Thall, Hangu, blew up when it hit either an improvised explosive device or a landmine planted by militants. “Six civilians were killed and a few others injured,” he told Daily Times. Security sources in Miranshah, however, said 14 civilians were killed and six injured. Hospital sources in Thall said 11 were killed and eight injured.