Bomb kills six soldiers in Pakistan

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PESHAWAR - A ROADSIDE bomb yesterday killed six soldiers in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, officials said, the latest violence to hit the country since a ceasefire between the government and Taliban insurgents began.

The remote-controlled device hit a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps as it was moving from the town of Hangu to Kurram district, one of seven tribal areas along the Afghan border where militants have strongholds.

A security official in Peshawar, the main city in the northwest, told AFP the blast killed six soldiers and wounded eight.

The Ansar-ul-Mujahideen militant group, which has been active in the tribal areas for around three years, later claimed responsiblity.

The group’s spokesman Abu Baseer told AFP, “We have carried out this attack to avenge drone victims. We are not part of the Pakistani Taliban so we aren’t bound by their ceasefire.”