Five killed in Pakistan suicide attack

A suicide bombing has killed five people in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, according to a police official.

Fazal Rabbi said the attack this evening in the town of Salarzai targeted a convoy of Pakistani soldiers and elders from an anti-Taliban militia. The town is in the Bajur tribal area.

The police official said the dead included four members of the militia and a paramilitary soldier.

The attack took place several hours after the Pakistani army chief declared the “backbone” of the Islamist militants had been broken.