MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), July 26: A madressah was hit by a rocket shell in Dattakhel tehsil on Monday night, partially damaging the building. No one was hurt. Witnesses said the rocket was fired at the nearby health care facility where the army troops operating in the border areas in the North Waziristan have set up a base camp.

The rocket fired from an unknown location past midnight on Monday hit boundary wall of the seminary about 25km west of Miramshah. Military sources said that the security forces collected 13 missiles from different parts of Miramshah on Tuesday. They said that six of the seized missiles were six feet long, which were defused. Miscreants fired about 40 missiles in different parts of the volatile North Waziristan Agency on Sunday night, but did not cause casualty.