Five members of the para-military Frontier Corps were killed Monday when a suicide-bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into their checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan.
The daybreak attack occurred at Baran Pul, about 50 kilometers east of Miranshah, near the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Reports said 17 persons, including some Frontier Corps members, were injured, seven of them critically.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Many militants, belonging to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, fled to Pakistan from Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion on Afghanistan toppled the Taliban regime in 2001, and are now training their guns on Pakistani security forces.
The Taliban, according to many reports, is in complete control of Pakistan's Swat valley, having edged out all wings of the Islamabad government, and enforcing sharia law, relegating women.
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