KHAR, April 20: Three missiles fired from across the Afghan border landed in the Charmang area of Bajaur Agency on Wednesday, wounding a girl.

The agency’s political agent Mohammad Fahim Wazir confirmed that the missiles had been fired from across the border.

He said that political authorities and law-enforcement agencies had started an investigation. However, he said preliminary reports suggested that the missiles had been fired by mistake.

Sources said that US forces which had started an operation against Al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, near the Pakistani border, fired three missiles at 1am on Wednesday.

They said that one missile landed near the house of Hazrat Gul in the Kohi Karkani village, about 40 km west of Khar. Gul’s 15-year-old daughter suffered injuries and the house was partially damaged.

The wounded girl was taken to a hospital in Khar where her condition was stated to be serious.

Tribesmen strongly protested against the attack and asked the Afghan government to ensure that such incidents would not recur.

The government has deployed regular and paramilitary troops to the Bajaur Agency and other areas bordering Kunar province to stop infiltration of terrorists from the province where the operation against militants is under way.