SIALKOT, June 4: A bomb exploded just outside a Rangpura shop here early Friday morning. According to official sources, unknown people had planted the bomb beneath the outer wall of a private mobile telephone accessories shop close to a private school at Rangpura Chowk.

It went off at 4:25am, damaging the main door and outer wall of the shop and shattering glassware in the surrounding buildings. No casualty or injury was reported, all shops being closed at the time.

The sources told newsmen there was a private school adjacent to the mobile telephone shop, where special classes were being offered despite the summer vacation. The sources said the terrorists had set the time-bomb for the rush hours, but it went off early due to some technical fault.

The sources said the bomb was a locally-made two-pounder. The sensitive agencies besieged the area later on and combed through the locality in search of any more bombs. None was found however.

BOOKED: The Bambanwala police have registered a case against nine Daska-based dealers on charges of purchasing snatched or stolen vehicles and reselling them after changing registration and chassis numbers.

Four of the accused were identified as Abbas, Aslam alias Kuku, Hafiz Shaikh and Sajjad Shah. The police had raided their workshop in Kandan Sayyan-Daska and took into custody a stolen Hiace (JGA-4755), a Potohar (LOM-2509) and a car (LHF-7969).