LANDI KOTAL/PESHAWAR, Jan 20: Four militants and two security men were killed in different incidents in Khyber Agency while an elder of Mohmand tribal region was shot dead in Peshawar on Friday.

Officials said that unidentified persons shot dead an official of Frontier Corps in Malakdinkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency.

In another incident seven security personnel were injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Baz Garha area of Bara.

One of the critically injured personnel later succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. Security forces launched a search operation in the area but made no arrest.

Reports received from Tirah valley of the tribal region said that four militants, two each from both sides, were killed when activists of banned militant outfit Lashkar-I-Islam clashed with Taliban on Friday.Meanwhile, militants blew up a government school near the Torkhum border late on Friday evening.

Officials that the building of a government primary school for boys at Bacha Mayna was partially damaged when explosive material planted inside its building went of at around 8:30pm. Nobody was hurt in the explosion.

In another incident, three volunteers of a tribal peace committee were injured in a bomb blast in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency.

Sources said that an explosive device planted along a roadside went off when volunteers of Kukikhel tribal lashkar were on a routine patrol in Dwa Thoe area after the Friday prayers.

The blast caused injuries to at least three tribesmen and the vehicle was also partially damaged. Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the blast.

The Kukikhel tribesmen had in the re-cent past raised an armed lashkar against Taliban in their areas of Tirah valley.

In Peshawar, armed men shot dead an elder of Mohmand Agency and escaped late on Friday.An official said that Fazal Maula Mohmand had shifted from his native tribal region to Bakhshi Pul area on the outskirts of Peshawar few years ago owing to lawlessness in the agency.

'So far no one has claimed responsibility for his murder but it seems that he had contacts the with peace committees supporting security forces in Mohmand Agency,' he said.

The official said that the tribesman had opened a tandoor in the area. He was sitting there when the attackers riding a motorbike opened indiscriminate firing on him and managed to escape.

A case in this regard, he said, had been registered at Khazana police station against unidentified murderers but sofar no one had been arrested.