Constable injured in bomb attack

Published November 21, 2007

MARDAN/ TIMERGARA, Nov 20: A constable was wounded in the bomb attack on a police station in Rustam village, 30kms away from Mardan, early on Tuesday. DIG Ghulam Mohammad said the explosion could be a reaction to the army operation launched against militants in Malakand region.

A police post was destroyed in a rocket attack in Dir Lower early on Tuesday. There was no casualty.

Also on Tuesday, a locally-manufactured bomb exploded near the gate of a girls’ high school in Shawa Tehsil Adenzai. The bomb went off about half an hour before the school was to open.

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