Rocket attacks hit Bannu City in NWFP
Peshawar, July 25 : At least 50 causalities were reported from Bannu City of North West Frontier Province when unidentified militants fired rockets from a nearby hillock.
Four rockets were fired into Bannu hitting some houses, a hotel, a government official's residence, Chawk Bazar, a mosque and a shop, a police official said.
A sound of powerful bomb blast was heard from Cantt Market of Bannu area here, the sources said.
According to eyewitnesses, some unknown criminals fired the rockets on Bannu City, The News reported.
A rocket hit a house in Kali tehsil setting it on fire. Another rocket hit in the meantime, when people from the neighbourhood arrived to extinguish the fire injuring 30 men including five policemen.
The eyewitnesses have confirmed the deaths of 14 people, while 35 people are seriously injured, the paper reported.
The injured have been rushed to the hospitals, where emergency situation has been declared.
The sources said that the seven dead bodies including those of a woman and two children have been brought to Bannu Hospital.
According to officials, the attack was conducted from nearby hillocks, after which the offenders fled the scene.
Meanwhile, there are reports regarding a bomb blast in a school situated in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.
The sources said the explosion occurred in the science section of the school premises, and added that no casualties have been reported so far.
A security forces post in Waziristan has also been blown up with a powerful bomb explosion.
There has been increased unrest in Pakistan since the army ousted Islamist militants holed up in the Lal Masjid complex in Islamabad.
Nearly 170 people, mostly police and soldiers, have been killed in attacks in Pakistan's north-west region.
Bannu is on the edge of the North Waziristan tribal region, a centre of support for the Taliban-style militants.
The army action inside the red mosque prompted militants along the areas bordering Afghanistan to scrap the controversial peace accord with the government.
--- ANI
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