A suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan killed nine soldiers and wounded about a dozen others on Saturday, police said.
The attack took place in Bannu city where the bomber targeted the camp office of the paramilitary Frontier Corps troops, who are deployed in militant-infested North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan.
“The bomber drove his explosives-packed vehicle into the FC building,” local police official Muhammad Shafiq told AFP.
He said the camp office was damaged in the attack. Two local intelligence officials also confirmed the attack and feared the death toll could rise.
“There may be some more dead bodies lying under the debris of the single-storey building which was attacked from the back,” they told AFP.
Senior local police official Feroz Shah said the death toll stood at nine, from an initial toll of five killed and 12 wounded.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack on the camp, which is a base for Frontier Corps troops, also known as the Tochi Scouts, before and after deployments in North Waziristan.
Bannu is 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.