MIRAMSHAH: A sabotage attempt to target a convoy was foiled when security forces defused an improvised explosive device planted on Esha-Razmak road near Kam Sarobi in North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday.

Sources said that security forces convoy was on way to Bannu when they spotted an IED planted along the road on Esha-Razmak road.

The device was later defused. Meanwhile, curfew was imposed for indefinite period due to security reasons in the tribal region.

The curfew has multiplied miseries of local people as all government offices, schools, hospitals and markets remained closed.

Meanwhile, fear gripped people due to low flights of US drones in different areas of North Waziristan Agency.

Tribal people said that they had spotted drones flying at low altitude in Ghulam Khan, Dattakhel, Hamzoni, Shawal, Mir Ali sub-division and Miramshah. They said that four to six drones had been spotted flying at low altitude in these areas. — Correspondent