September 25, 2008	Thursday	Ramazan 24, 1429

MINGORA, Sept 24: Two soldiers were killed and 10 others were injured in attacks by militants in different areas of the troubled Swat district on Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Sources said that security men deployed at the Manglor mountain post in Charbagh had gone to a nearby spring to fetch water when they were hit by a bomb detonated by remote control.

The dead were identified as Ebadullah and Asghar.

Another six personnel were injured when militants fired on their convoy near police lines in a suburb of Mingora.

The ISPR, however, said that one security man had been killed and another injured in the bomb attack and two had been injured by firing.

A primary school for girls was blown up on Tuesday night in the Koz Qalla area of Manglor. Explosives planted all over the school building went off in the middle of the night, the sources said.

A bank was set ablaze in Mingora’s Green Chowk on Tuesday night, bringing the number of bank branches burnt down in 24 hours to five.

A girls’ college had been blown up in Matta on Monday night.Meanwhile, the Swat media information cell said that the local peace committee apprised security officials of the problems faced by people in Gulkada. At the meeting Maj-Gen Nasir Janjua, who is in-charge of the operation Rah-i-Haq appealed to the people to help restore peace in the area.

The sources said a Wapda team had arrived from Peshawar to repair the grid station, while engineers of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines were working on an emergency basis to restore gas supply to Mingora.

Swat DCO Shoukat Ali Khan Yousafzai said that the supply of gas would be restored by Friday and electricity within four days.

The curfew imposed in Mingora on Tuesday was relaxed from 7 am to 7pm and all markets and educational institutions were open.