Rockets fired in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Unidentified militants fired at least 28 rockets at Adezai village in the small hours of Thursday. A house was damaged in the attack.Adezai union council nazim Haji Abdul Malik told Dawn that rockets began to land around his residence after midnight and continued for about one hour.‘They were not rockets but mortar shells, which bear marks of Wah Factory,’ Malik said and added that house of Sher Mast Khan was hit by two shells. The owner of the house, he said, had been killed in a similar attack sometime ago.He said that local people tried to locate the attackers, but couldn’t do so as they had fired the mortars from Jani Khwar, about six kilometres away from Adezai village.The nazim said that firing of mortar shells with short intervals showed that the number of attackers was in dozens.He said volunteers were active to defend their village but they couldn’t patrol in the areas every night.
He said that militants had also attacked the village on last Wednesday night and fired about 12 rockets.An official of the Matani police station said that militants had been active in the surrounding areas but police had also beefed up security to frustrate their attacks.