[Dawn] A bomb attack killed six Pak soldiers in the Orakzai Agency... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar...
on Friday, security officials said.
The device went
kaboom!as the convoy was moving through Orakzai's Yakh Kandaw area.
"Frontier Corps troops were on a routine patrol in upper Orakzai when an IED (improvised bomb) blast took place in Yakh Kandaw," the district's political administrator, Abdul Qadir, told AFP.
"Six security officials keeled over dead while three were maimed. A search operation has been launched in the area to trace the hard boys."
A paramilitary official from the Frontier Corps said the dead included a colonel, and said two other troops were maimed.
A security bigshot told AFP the convoy had been en route from the village of Ghaljo in Orakzai to the northwestern town of Kohat.