August 27, 2008	Wednesday	Sha'aban 24, 1429

MINGORA, Aug 26: Two little girls were killed when Taliban blew up houses of ANP leaders in Swat on Tuesday.

Four houses and two hujras belonging to Matta ANP president Muzaffar Ali Khan and his brothers Mukhtiar Khan, a leader of transporters’ association, Wazir Ali and Sardar Ali, were blown up in Shakar Dara area of Matta tehsil.

The ANP leaders had vacated the houses some time ago for fear of such attacks.

Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks saying the military operation was being carried out at the behest of the ANP.

The girls, identified as two-year-old Gulnaz and three-year-old Shabana, were injured when a mortar shell fell on their house.

They were taken to a hospital where they died.

Tweleve-year-old Najeebullah was killed and eleven others were injured in a bomb blast at the Shah Dara police post.

The post was completely destroyed. An unidentified man was gunned down in Kabal Khas.

Farhat and her daughter Sawara were injured when a shell hit the house of one Akbar Ali in Ghaligi areas of Barikot.

Omar Din was injured when a mortar shell hit his house in Ghaligi.

A government girls’ school was blown up in Manglawar, damaging five rooms and furniture.

Local people, meanwhile, continued leaving their houses and moving to other areas because of continues shelling of civilian areas and targeted killings by the militants.