PARACHINAR, Sept 22: Two persons were killed in a roadside bomb blast while another explosive device was defused in lower Kurram Agency on Saturday.

Officials said that the bomb was planted along the main road near Khar Kallay. They said that two pedestrians were killed when the bomb went off.

Officials said that security forces defused another explosive device near the village. Political administration arrested several people under the collective responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation after the incident, they added. —Correspondent