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Woman injured in cross border attack

Dawn Report 2013-11-04
KHAR/PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Rockets fired from Afghanistan side of the border landed in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Saturday night, leaving a woman injured, said officials of local administration.

They said that suspected militants fired rockets from across the border targeting Bandagi, a border village of Mamond tehsil, 30km from the agency headquarters Khar.

The officials said that one rocket hit a house of a local tribesman and as a result a 35-year<>1d woman identified as FatimaBibi suffered injuries. She was taken to the agency headquarter hospital, Khar, where her condition was stated to be stable.

Meanwhile, tribal elders of Mamond tehsil have expressed concern over the attack and vowed to continue fight against militants in the area.

In Peshawar, suspected terrorists hurled a hand grenade at the house of a senior doctor in University Town, causing minor injuries to a security guard here on Sunday evening.

An official of Town police station quoting sources said that two men riding a motorcycle came to the area and hurleda hand-grenade at the house. The building, he said, was owned by Dr Zubair, but he had given it on rent to a foreign NGO, Medicines Sans Frontiers.

`No one was inured as people were not present at the time of the attack and it seemed a mere threat,` the official commented and added that a case had been registered at the police station.

However, another source said that a security guard identified as Amir Siyab had sustained minor injuries. He said that the blast caused panic among the residents and they came out of their houses. However, police told them that it was a minor incident.