Two separate militant attacks left at least 12 people dead, including children, in Pakistan's troubled Khyber tribal district on Saturday, officials said. "At least six people including two children and a woman were killed when a mortar fired by militants fell on a house in Tirah valley," a senior local administration official, Saeed Ahmad Jan, told AFP.
He said that the militants apparently wanted to target a nearby check post of security forces but missed. And in Bara town a group of 20-25 militants from the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) group attacked a checkpost of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, triggering a gunfight. "The exchange of fire left six militants dead and 10 others wounded," Jan said, adding that troops arrested all the injured rebels.