A powerful bomb ripped through a restaurant at a market in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight men and wounding 10 others, officials said. The attack happened in the Salarzai area of troubled Bajur tribal region and two pro-government elders were also among the dead, according to local government official Israr Khan. Khan said the bomb had been planted inside the restaurant, where the slain elders were sitting at the time, according to a report of the Associated Press. A doctor, Mohammed Saeed, said the hospital received four bodies and that four wounded died shortly after arrival. He said they were also treating 10 wounded, some of them listed in critical condition. No one has claimed responsibility, and the motive for the attack was not immediately known.
