11 security personnel and three civilians, including a child, a security official said. The separate incidents on Monday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which left at least 25 others wounded, come as Pakistan's security forces battle intensifying insurgencies in southern and northern provinces that border Afghanistan.

This month the Islamic State group (IS) claimed responsibility for a massive suicide blast at a Shiite mosque in the capital Islamabad that killed at least 31 people, with 169 more wounded. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the security official told AFP that on Monday evening a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the wall of a religious college in the tribal district of Bajaur in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "As a result, eight police and Frontier Corps personnel present inside the seminary were martyred and 10 others injured," he said. "The blast also caused the roofs of several nearby houses to collapse, killing a child." He added the death told may rise. In another attack in the town of Bannu, a bomb planted in a rickshaw exploded at the Miryan police station, killing two civilians and wounding 17 others, the official said. (Bssnews)