Roadside bomb kills 8 Pakistani paramilitary troops

Eight Pakistani soldiers, including an officer, were killed and three others injured when their convoy was targetted with a roadside bomb in the country's restive Khyber tribal region on Thursday, officials said.

The bomb was triggered by remote control as the convoy was passing through a market in Bara, the main town in the lawless Khyber Agency that borders Afghanistan. The blast  hit two vehicles.

A captain was among the dead, officials of the local political administration said. The convoy of the Frontier Corps was coming to Bara from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The injured were taken to a military hospital in Peshawar.

Security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists have strongholds in Khyber Agency.