wo separate bomb attacks killed three people and wounded two others, including a senior Pakistani army officer, in a restive tribalregion near the Afghan border, officials said on Tuesday.The incidents took place Monday in the Mohmand tribal area, one of the seven such semi-autonomous districts where the military has been battling Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants for over a decade.“An improvised explosive device (IED) planted along the roadside in Baizai area went off as a vehicle passed by it killing three people: a tribal policeman, a foreman and a tribesman,” senior local administration official Waqar Khan told AFP.No group has so far claimed responsibility for the incident, but Khan said authorities were investigating whether the deceased were associated with a local anti-Taliban militia.Another IED planted on a roadside in the samedistrict meanwhile struck a military vehicle wounding a Lieutenant Colonel and a soldier, Khan said.Local intelligence officials confirmed the two incidents.The army has intensified its offensives in the tribal regions since the Taliban’s massacre of 153 people, 134 of them children, in a school inPeshawar last December.
