Pakistan bomb kills boy, injures five children

Suspected Taliban militants have detonated two bombs which killed a boy, aged between five and seven, outside a school and injuring 10 other people, including five children.

Police have said it destroyed a pair of oil tankers along a vital supply route in Pakistan used by Nato and US forces in Afghanistan.

The fire also engulfed a flatbed truck and nearby shops in the Takhta Beg area of the Khyber tribal region, local official Iqbal Khan said.

Alleged Taliban militants and ordinary criminals frequently attack vehicles along the supply route that runs through the famed Khyber Pass into Afghanistan. The US and Nato say their Afghan operations have felt limited impact, but they are establishing alternative routes.

Meanwhile, an explosion occurred near a school run by a police foundation in the Pakistani city of Peshawar today. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The nature of the blast was not clear, police official Haroon Khan said. However, several suicide attacks have hit the Taliban-riddled regions near the Afghan border in recent days, including two attacks in the Kohat area that killed around 50 people over the weekend.

The Police Public School was in session when the explosion went off. The school is run by a police welfare foundation, which tries to raise money to help families of police officers.