KOHAT, Sept 17 Eight people, including five security personnel and a child, were injured in two different bomb explosions here on Wednesday afternoon.

Five security personnel were injured when a bomb went off inside the barrel of a gun on O.T.S. Road in Kohat city in the afternoon, police confirmed.

The security personnel were loading a gun in officers` training school when a bomb exploded prematurely inside the barrel due to some technical fault.

As a result Naib Subedar Shah Mohammad, Naik Amanullah, sepoys Sultan, Amjad Hussain and Allah Dad got injured. They were admitted to Kohat combined military hospital.

Earlier three children including a baby girl were injured when a mortar fired from Darra Adamkhel hit house of Matiullah in Darai area of Jangle Khel in Kohat city on Wednesday.

The injured children were identified as Danish Khan, 7, Hamad Khan, 5, and Maryam Bibi, 2. The condition of Maryam is stated to be serious.

PEACE BODY FORMED The elders of eight villages of Nasrat Khel union council on Wednesday formed a peace committee and raised armed force of volunteers to check criminals and terrorists in their area.

They also announced a timeframe for expelling non-locals and criminals from their area on self help basis due to shortage of police force in the district.

The decision was made at a jirga held in Farooq-i-Azam Mosque of Nasrat Khel in the presence of DSP Ehsanullah Khan, Cantt SHO Ibraheem Ullah, Risaldar Aslam Khan, Hafiz Mohammad Shah and other elders of the area.

The residents assured the police that they would try their best to maintain law and order in the area and check unethical, un-Islamic and anti social activities.

The police officials promised that they would ask the provincial government to announce a food relief package for the area like other parts of NWFP.

The officials said that the district administration had prepared a directory card for addressing the problems of the people immediately. These cards would soon be available in mosques, hujras, shops and government offices for the people to contact the concerned head of department in case of any complaint to speed up justice system.

TRADERS FINED The district administration imposed fines on several flour dealers and sent them to jail for creating artificial crisis in the market on Wednesday.

District Coordination Officer Siraj Ahmed, accompanied by District Police Officer Abdullah Khan, District Food Controller Sultan Mahmood, DSP Ehsanullah and journalists, also checked meat and grocery shops and booked shopkeepers for not displaying official price lists at their shops.

Fines up to Rs1,500 were collected from the shopkeepers on the spot and several of them were sent to lockup of city police station.

The DCO told journalists said that nobody would be allowed to overcharge customers or sell substandard food items during the holy month of Ramazan. Strict action would be taken against the violators, he added. He asked the shopkeepers to display price lists at their shops and charge control rates from the consumers.

Meanwhile the president of the meat shop owners announced an indefinite strike from today to condemn the action of the administration against them and sending their colleagues to jail.

The president said that they were treated like criminals during checking and they were sent to lock up whereas many other businessmen were just warned or fined.