A suicide bomber Saturday struck the vehicle of a Pakistani anti-Taliban militia leader killing him and four others in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The incident took place in Salarzai region, 65 kilometres (40 miles) north-east of Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district in the north-west of the country.
"A suicide bomber blew himself up before the vehicle of Malik Manasib Khan killing him and four others including a paramilitary soldier and wounding five others," tribal police official Javed Khan told AFP. Local intelligence officials confirmed the attack and the death toll.