WANA/BATKHELA, May 21: Two security personnel were killed and four others wounded when miscreants blew up an electricity tower in Dargai area of South Waziristan on Tuesday.

According to political administration officials, unknown miscreants had planted improvised explosive devices (IED) near a tower of high intensity electricity line in Dargai area and blew it up early on Tuesday morning. As a result, the tower, supplying electricity to Wana from Tank, was destroyed.

The security personnel from a nearby check-post rushed to the site following the blast and when they reached there another blast occurred, leaving two personnel dead and four others injured. The injured were taken to Wana Army hospital.

In Batkhela, unknown assailants gunned down a prayer leader in Dargai early on Tuesday.

Sources said that the armed men entered the mosque in Dargai on the night between Monday and Tuesday and opened fire on its prayer leader Habibullah, 33, killing him on the spot.

Following postmortem, the body of Mr Habibullah was sent to his hometown Haripur for burial. The Malakand Levies post has registered an FIR against unknown accused. —Dawn Report