Pakistani soldiers transport the injured security personnel to a hospital following an IED blast in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Image: SOURCED)
The attack happened in the district of Kurram, which lies along the Af-Pak border.
A roadside bomb exploded near a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing five soldiers and wounding two others, officials said, a sign of increasing attacks on security forces in the volatile region.
The latest attack in the region happened in the district of Kurram, a former militant stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
In a statement, the military said a search operation was underway in the region where the attack happened “to eliminate any terrorists present in the area and perpetrators of this heinous act will be brought to justice.”
No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack. However, blame was likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, an ally…