At least 18 soldiers were killed and 28 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a military convoy in Pakistan's north-west tribal region on Saturday, the military said, acccording to dpa. "The attack targeted a convoy transporting troops of the Pakistan Army and the Frontier Corps (paramilitary force) at around 11:20 am (0620 GMT)," the military's chief spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The soldiers were travelling from the town of Razmak to Miranshah, the administrative capital of the North Waziristan semi-autonomous tribal district that borders Afghanistan. Two vehicles in the convoy were completely destroyed in the bombing.