Attacks kill three soldiers in N Waziristan: Officials

Planted IED targets military convoy near Miranshah, another attack wounds two other soldiers.

MIRANSHAH: Three soldiers were killed and four wounded in bomb attacks on military convoys in North Waziristan on Sunday, officials said.

"A military convoy comprising 35 vehicles was on its way to the northwestern town of Bannu from Razmak when an improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off, killing three soldiers," a local intelligence official said.

The official, who requested anonymity, said two soldiers were wounded in the explosion 70 kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in the region.

Another two soldiers were wounded in a second bomb attack on a military convoy 20 kilometres east of Miranshah.

A local tribal police official, Ali Muhammad, confirmed the two attacks and casualties.

North Waziristan is one of seven semi-autonomous tribal regions and has been the scene of frequent drone strikes by the United States.

The deputy commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Waliur Rehman, was killed along with at least five others in a drone strike on a house in North Waziristan on May 29.