LOWER DIR: A teenager, who was injured in Shago Kas blast, succumbed to his injuries here on Monday.

Basit, 17, a resident of Shago Kas, was injured when an explosive device went off on Sunday on the bank of Panjl(ora River.

His uncle Zamin Khan said that it was the second incident of its kind at the same place.

He said that an of ficial of bomb disposal squad Sabzi Ali was martyred and another Ajmal was injured when an explosive device went off at the same place a week ago. He added that the officials were trying to defuse the device.

A large number of locals, government officials, social and political activists attended the funeralprayer of Basit. He was a student of 10th grade and had topped last year`s annual examinations.

Local elders demanded of government to announce Shuhada Pacl(age for him.

They also sought compensation for the injured youth, who are under-treatment in a Peshawar hospital.

The deputy commissioner, Wasil Khan, along with other officials visited the hujra of the deceased and offered fateha for the departed soul. He said that a team was called from Peshawar to clear the site from the explosives, which had been dumped there years ago.

PPP district secretary information Advocate Alamzeb blamed police for the incident. He demanded inquiry into the incident.

He said that two children were killed while three others were injured when the explosive device explodednearthePanjkora River.

JI: Jamaat-i-Islami dis-trict chief Izazul Mulk Afkari on Mondaydemanded of government to stop deployment of police officials outside the district.

Tall(ing to journalists in Timergara, he said that four police officials belonging to Lower Dir were martyred in a blast in Dere IsmailKhan on polling day.

He said that police officials from other districts knew little about ground situation in an area. `High ups should ban their deployment in far-off districts, he added.

TEACHERS: Teachers here on Monday complained that their female colleagues were ill-treated during election duty.

In a joint statement, All Secondary School Teachers Association general secretary Mohammad Rashid Khan, district president of All Primary Teachers Association Qazi Habibullah and Malgari Ustazan district president Wazir Zada alleged that officials misbehaved with female teachers on polling day.