Eight civilians and two members of the security forces have been killed in an attack on a convoy of food trucks in northwest Pakistan, which has been wracked by sectarian violence since Thursday.

Despite a ceasefire agreed between the two sides on 1 July, the convoy came under ‘fire’ in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and where major roads have been closed in an attempt to curb violence that has killed more than 200 people since July, police said on Friday.

Twenty-one trucks left the area after the attack, but others remained stranded… There was heavy gunfire in two locations, a police official said.