Four martyred in plastic bomb blast near Afghan border
 

https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/up...35_updates.jpg PESHAWAR: Four people were martyred including a soldier and two paramilitary troops when a bomb concealed in a plastic bag went off in tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said Saturday.

The incident occurred in the Khyber district when security officials spotted a suspicious plastic bag near a security checkpoint.

Khyber is one of the seven semi-auto**mous tribal areas where the army has for more than a decade been battling militants linked to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

"As the security officials were inspecting the plastic bag, the bomb concealed in it went off, killing a solider, two paramilitary troops and a civilian," a local administration official told AFP, requesting a**nymity.

The incident was confirmed by other local security officials.

There was ** immediate claim of responsibility.

Violence across Pakistan has declined in recent years following a ****** of military offensives against insurgents but the remnants of militant groups are still able to carry out periodic bloody attacks, particularly in the **rthwest.

The army launched an operation in June 2014 in neighbouring **rth Waziristan to wipe out militant bases in the tribal areas and end an insurgency that has cost thousands of civilian lives since 2004.

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