A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander's compound in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people, as heavily armed attackers killed eight members of the coast guard in the south-west, officials said.

Unknown assailants fired rocket propelled grenades at the military academy near Osama bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad early this morning, causing damage but no casualties, police said.

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis were today fleeing to higher ground to avoid a tropical cyclone that was expected to lash the coastline with torrential rains and high winds.