Targeted attacks: Seven injured in two IED blasts

A peace committee volunteer and two Frontier Corps officials are among the injured.

GHALLANAI: A peace committee volunteer, two Frontier Corps (FC) officials and four others were injured in two IED blasts in Mohmand Agency. A political administration official Zeeshan Abdullah told The Express Tribune that a volunteer of Babazai peace committee, Tasleem Khan, was injured in an IED blast while passing through Shamsha area in Baizai sub-division. He was shifted to a hospital in Peshawar due to his critical condition. In response to the attack, a search operation was launched in the area by FC forces. Another IED went off while they were trying to defuse a bomb in Baizai, injuring two FC officials and four peace committee volunteers. The injured were rushed to the agency headquarters hospital, where they were said to be out of danger.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28^th, 2013.