KOHAT, April 11 A military Cobra helicopter coming from Waziristan to Kohat crash landed here in Jarma area on Sunday owing to some technical fault.

Officials said that the crew remained safe. The crash landing was result of some technical fault for which investigations had been ordered, they added. The helicopter was on a routine flight. Senior military officers and police reached the scene and removed the helicopter to the airbase with the help of heavy machinery.

Meanwhile, local tribesmen have found four beheaded bodies, three of them identified as Taliban commanders, believed to have been killed last week during clashes with security forces in Bezote village of Orakzai Agency.

Officials and tribal sources confirmed that local tribesmen in Bezote found the headless bodies of commanders Ehsanullah, Awal Noor and Said Mohammad. The fourth body could not be identified. The tribesmen buried all the four bodies in the local graveyard.

Sources said that Taliban always took away the heads of their killed companions or blew them up by placing hand grenades in their mouths to hide their identity when they had no time to bury them.

MARDAN A policeman was killed and two others were critically injured when unidentified persons attacked their van in Koti Shah area here on the night between Saturday and Sunday.

Official sources said that Assistant Sub-Inspector Islam Shah was killed while driver Rashid and constable Sher Mohammad were seriously injured when their vehicle was attacked at midnight. The police party was its way to Katlang. They said that Islam Shah died on the spot while Sher Mohammad was taken to District Headquarters Hospital Mardan and Rashid was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

GHALANAI Militants destroyed a government school in Safi tehsil while a volunteer of local peace committee was injured in a landmine blast in Baizai tehsil of Mohmand tribal region.

Locals said that unidentified persons had planted explosives at the middle school for boys near Farooq Khan village. The explosives exploded with a big bang and destroyed the building. They said that 80 per cent portion of the building collapsed due to explosion. Militants have destroyed about 26 government schools in Safi tehsil so far.

In another incident a volunteer of peace committee, Mian Gul Bacha, was on way to home when he stepped on a landmine in Manzari Chena area on Sunday. He suffered fatal injuries and was shifted to the hospital in Ghalanai.

Meanwhile, The World Food Programme has shifted humanitarian centres from Charsadda to the sport complex in Ghalanai.

The affected people would get relief items in Ghalanai now, officials said. Trucks loaded with relief items reached Ghalanai and workers set up makeshift warehouses in the stadium. Earlier, a non governmental organisation was given contract to distribute items among internally displaced persons in Charsadda.

Sources said that WFP had taken decision after receiving complaints about alleged anomalies in the distribution of relief items.

LANDI KOTAL Militants blew up an agricultural centre in the Karegar Garhi area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency on the night between Saturday and Sunday, sources said.

They said that the centre, which housed offices and residential compounds, was completely demolished when the explosives went off at midnight. There was no report of casualties in the incident.