Terrorist killed in Hangu

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Security forces killed a terrorist and injured one of his accomplices during a gunfight in the Wach Bazaar area of Hangu, a district administration official said on Thursday.

The official said some terrorists hurled hand grenades at a house owned by Salamat. The security forces opened fire on the terrorists while they were fleeing, killing one of them and wounding another. The attackers managed to escape along with the dead body and their injured accomplice. The residents of the house remained unhurt.

In another incident, an injured victim of a bomb blast succumbed to his injuries at a hospital. Two daughters and a son of Nameer, a resident of Gul Bagh, Hangu, were wounded in an explosion in their house on Wednesday night.

The injured girls are being treated at the District Headquarters Hospital, Kohat, where their condition is stated to be critical.