PESHAWAR: A Levies official was killed and a Frontier Corps Lt Col injured in two separate explosions in Mohmand Agency Monday, said officials.

Levies official Naseer and a passerby, Umar, were killed when a planted mine exploded in the the agency's Baezai tehsil.

In a separate incident in the same tehsil, a roadside bomb exploded near a security convoy, said officials. Several personnel were injured, including Frontier Corps Lt Col Taimur.

The injured were taken to Mohmand Agency's central hospital for immediate treatment.

Mohmand is one of Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies near the Afghan border which are rife with militancy and have been said to be strongholds of Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives.

In February 2015, Mohmand Rifles Commandant Colonel Umar Haider Bokhari, while speaking to journalists, said security forces, with the support of local tribesmen, have cleared most of the agency's areas of militants and restored peace there.

Col Bokhari said security forces, the local peace committees and the political administration had set up checkposts in the agency to restrict the movement of militants, adding that the government’s writ had been restored after successful military operations.