Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas blew themselves up today in a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in north-western Pakistan, killing 41 people and wounding 62, officials said.

A battle in a militant-controlled region of western Afghanistan killed 30 insurgents and nine Afghan soldiers, while a roadside bomb in the country’s north wounded an Afghan governor, officials said today.

A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan wounded the governor of Kunduz province today, while violence around the country killed 17 people, officials said.

MILITANTS brandishing assault rifles ambushed a US relief organisation’s vehicle south of Kabul, killing three Western aid workers and their Afghan driver and leaving their white SUV riddled with hundreds of bullets, officials said.

A roadside bomb hit a convoy of British troops today, wounding one soldier, police said.

A suicide attacker blew up explosives strapped to his body in a central Afghan town today during a visit by the US ambassador, and 10 Afghan civilians were believed to be killed or wounded.

Four Pakistani killers have been spared execution after a new clemency deal was reached with the victims' family.