KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Dec 22: A video-shop was blown up and a number of other shops were damaged when an explosive device went off at a shopping centre near the Bajaur Scouts camp here on Wednesday night. All video and music shops in the agency’s headquarters and other towns have been lying closed after saboteurs targeted two video-shops in a similar way over the past two months.

The shops which were blown up are located in a shopping centre owned by the scouts force and it is located at a distance of only a few yards from the main scouts’ camp.

The political administration has arrested the shop owner and another man under Section 40 of the Frontier Crimes Regulation after the blast.

The administration had closed all video and music shops in the agency after the first two blasts to avert a law and order situation in the region.

People have also removed TV sets and dish antennae from hotels and shops in the agency in the wake of bomb attacks on music shops.

Sources said that some video shop owners had started selling equipment at throw-away prices and were looking for other income-generation opportunities.