February 16, 2008	Saturday	Safar 08, 1429

LANDI KOTAL, Feb 15: A rocket was fired on the Agency Headquarters Hospital by some people on Thursday night, damaging the hospital building, officials said.

A watchman of a nearby petrol station told officials he had seen three to four men in a car firing the rocket on the hospital.

Hospital sources said the rocket had hit lavatories adjacent to the surgical ward, slightly damaging the building. According to them, an arms depot situated at the back of the hospital could have been the miscreants’ target.

The British-era arms depot is manned by army personnel.

Thursday night’s attack on the hospital building is the third in two weeks. The office of the medical superintendent and the administration block had been damaged in two bomb blasts on Feb 2 and Feb 13. Eight employees of the hospital had been taken into custody for investigation after the blasts.

The medical staff of the hospital observed a token strike on Friday and took out a protest procession, demanding security on the hospital premises.

The local political administration deployed additional Khasadar and Levies personnel at the hospital and started body search of every visitor to the hospital. Sources in the hospital said the earlier two bomb blasts could have been the result of bickering between the hospital’s management and lower staff.