Bomb kills three Pak troops

PESHAWAR, Dec 24 (Agencies): A roadside bomb killed three soldiers Sunday in a remote part of northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, officials said.

The bombing took place in the village of Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan, one of the country's seven semi-autonomous tribal areas where the military has been battling Islamist militants, including the Pakistani Taliban.

The soldiers from the paramilitary Frontier Corps were searching for bombs to clear the area for the passage of a convoy, a senior Pakistani security official told AFP.

"Three soldiers ... were martyred in an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blast in Ghulam Khan," the official said.

Meanwhile, at least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured in a fatal road crash in Pakistan's southern Sindh Province on Sunday morning, local Urdu TV channel reported.

Two passenger coaches collided with each other on the Indus Highway area in Sehwan Sharif district of the province, senior superintendent of police in the district said, adding that women and children were among the killed in the accident.