The official Mohammed Ali said three people were also injured in Saturday's attack in the Upper
Kurram ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
region bordering Afghanistan.
He said the dead and injured had been transported to a hospital.
Ali says it's not immediately clear who were behind the attack and an investigation is under way.
Kurram has witnessed scores of such attacks and kidnappings for ransom in the past several years.
The military has launched offensives against Talibs there, but violence has continued.