27 dead in terrorist attacks in Pakistan

According to reports received, five separate strikes hit on Tuesday, including two roadside bombs, an attack on a military post and a car bombing targeting a judge.

At least five soldiers and 15 militants were killed in a gunfight after insurgents attacked a checkpost of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Orakzai, one of seven restive semi-autonomous tribal regions on the Afghan border.

More than 50 militants attacked the checkpost. Two soldiers died while 15 terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire," a senior security official reportedly told AFP.

Six soldiers sustained injures in the attack, he said, adding that the militants fled after the FC troops retaliated.

In Bajaur, another tribal area on the Afghan border, a roadside bomb killed two security officials responsible for security arrangements for an ongoing polio vaccination drive.

Another roadside bomb exploded near a military vehicle in the northwestern town of Bannu on Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding another.

On the other hand, a car bomb targeting a judge of the anti-terrorist court Nazeer Ahmad Lango killed a 10-year old boy and wounded 25 in the southwestern city of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, police said.

Again, in yet another incident, a provincial government official, four children and a woman were killed while driving through Baluchistan's Bolan district.