SWAT, Feb 3: Unidentified persons blew up the house of Koza Bandai union council nazim Hidayat Ali Khan in Kabal tehsil here on Saturday night, residents said.

Eyewitnesses said that the explosive device was planted near the house, which went off during midnight and destroyed two rooms of the nazim’s residence.

Personnel of security agencies defused another improvised explosive device planted in the fields in Koza Bandai area of the district. The device was detected by security officials when they were collecting evidences of the blast at the nazim’s house.

Meanwhile, the curfew in the Mingora town was relaxed from 6am to 8pm, official sources said. Earlier, the curfew timing was till 7pm, but the authorities decided to relax it further as normality limped back to the major town of the scenic valley.