Khyber agency: Eight injured in Bara

BARA: Three security forces personnel were among the eight people injured on Wednesday in two separate incidents of violence in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency. Assistant Political Agent (APA) Bara, Nasir Khan, said that militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Islam attacked a security forces convoy when it was patrolling in Muslim Dandh area of the agency. According to the APA, militants shot three personnel with sniper rifles injuring them. The wounded were rushed to a hospital in Peshawar, they included a Khasadar forces official Khan Akbar and security forces personnel Ashraf and Asad Khan. Meanwhile, five people of a family including four children were injured when a stray mortar shell fired from an unknown direction landed on a house of Speen Gul, in Surkas area of Bar Qambar Khel. The family was shifted to the hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2013.