, officials said.The attackers opened fire on the paramilitary convoy in the Nala area, five kilometres (three miles) west of Bara, the district headquarters of Khyber.
"The Death Eaters shot up the convoy when it passed from the area and killed four security persons," Rehan Gul Khattak, a local administration official told AFP.
"The security forces fired back but the Death Eaters managed to escape," he said.
Some 18,000 people decamped their homes in Khyber last month amid fears of a fresh onslaught of fighting between the army and Islamist Death Eaters tied to the Pak Taliban.
In the neighbouring district of
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
, security forces said they killed four Death Eaters and maimed five others who were later placed in durance vile, as the group tried to enter Pakistain from across the unmarked border in Afghanistan.
Pakistain's seven tribal districts near the Afghan border are rife with homegrown cut-throats and are strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.
"Those who have been placed in durance vile were maimed during the exchange of fire as the Death Eaters attacked Pakistain forces and they retaliated," said Maqsood Hassan, a local administration official.