LANDI KOTAL/PARACHINAR, Feb 26: Six militants and four civilians including women and children were killed in Tirah valley in different incidents of violence on Sunday.

Officials said that five activists of banned militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) were killed when helicopter gunships targeted their hideouts in Nanagrosa and Naree Baba areas.

They said that security forces and volunteers of Zakhakhel tribe made advances in the area and seized Khazana bunker from LI.

Sources said that an important LI commander Meen Asghar was killed when a mortar shell hit a hideout of militants in Speen Drand area of Tirah.

Sources said that the commander was chief of LI kidnapping squad. In the same area, two children and two women were killed when the house of Saifoor Khan was hit by a mortar shell.

At least eight persons, mostly children and women, had been killed during the last two days by mortar shells in the region.

Meanwhile, political administration arrested 21 members of Mangal tribe in Kurram Agency on Sunday after rocket attack on Piwar area, officials said. Militants fired rockets on Piwar area near the Afghan border on Saturday night.

One of the rockets hit a residential compound but the inmates remained unhurt. The administration arrested 21 tribesmen in Tangi area under the territorial responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation. Officials said that tribesmen would remain in custody till the culprits were not handed over to the local authorities.