Pakistan road blast kills seven

Pakistan road blast kills seven

Pakistan is still counting the cost of this week's Peshawar car bomb

At least seven paramilitary troops have been killed by a roadside bomb in north-west Pakistan, say officials.

Eleven others were said to have been injured in the blast, which struck a routine patrol of troops in the Khyber tribal region.

Elsewhere, officials said more than a dozen Islamist militants died in air strikes in the Orakzai tribal region.

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