KOHAT, Feb 22: Two rival groups fired rockets at each other’s positions in Kurram Agency, damaging two houses, the police said.

According to the police, a local notable of Thall city of the Kurram Agency Haji Pooni had an old enmity with the tribesmen residing at the Khadimak hills of the agency who fired eight rockets apparently targeting his house.

The police said, some of the rockets landed in the heart of Thall city causing damage to two houses while some crashed in the fields close to the house of Haji pooni.—Correspondent

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