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FC havaldar killed in Swat attack
MINGORA, May 8: A Frontier Corps havaldar was killed and a sepoy
injured when militants attacked the Kabal police station on
Thursday.
The area was under curfew when the attack took place. According to
ISPR, the FC personnel were at an FC checkpoint near the police
station.
SHO Sanober Khan said some people fired two rockets at the police
station and then opened fire with Kalashnikovs and other light
weapons at about 2:30am.
An exchange of fire between the two sides continued for one and a
half hours. Havaldar Mohammad Buzarg of Chitral was killed and
soldier Mohsin Ali was injured.
There is an army base camp at the Kabal golf ground near the police
station.
On Wednesday night, a government girls’ high school was set ablaze
in Matta. All the eight rooms of the school were damaged.
Matta police defused two bombs planted in front of the Sherpalam
Boys’ High School.
In Shahdara area of Mingora bazaar, students of a girls’ primary
school panicked when a bearded man entered it.
The man turned out to be mentally deranged. Several girls were
injured while hurrying to get out of the school. Shopkeepers in the
area closed their shops.
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