Three children were killed and four women injured when a mortar shell fired from an unknown location landed in a residential area in the Khyber tribal region.
Sources said a stray shell struck the house of Muhammad Ali Zakhakhel in the Akakhel area of Bara sub-division. As a result, three children, including two girls aged ten and four and a two-year-old minor, were killed.
Sources added that four women, including the wife of Muhammad Ali, were critically injured and rushed to a hospital in Peshawar.
A local resident told The Express Tribune that “the house was destroyed and the bodies of the children were mutilated beyond recognition”.
Meanwhile, militants launched a brazen attack on security forces, killing three personnel and wounding three others. Bara has been under curfew for almost three years, forcing hundreds of families to migrate to Peshawar and other areas because of ongoing trouble.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2012.
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