GHALANAI, March 24: Mortar shells fired from the nearby hilltops by unknown miscreants in the wee hours of Monday hit the Kurram Agency headquarters hospital and power transmission lines, causing panic among the residents.

One mortar shell hit the roof of the eye ward of the hospital at Ghalanai and partially damaged it. A mortar shell fell on a 132 KV transmission line, causing it immense damage while another shell hit an 11KV transmission line, partially damaging it. Yet mortar shell ruptured a water pipeline supplying water to civil colony. However, no casualty was reported.

The mortar shelling disconnected power and water supply to the hospital as well as other offices.

It is to mention here that offices of the political administration, government departments and headquarters of paramilitary forces and residential colonies for the public servants are located on the premises of the hospital.

A servant, Majid, told Dawn that he and his family members could not sleep at night in the wake of the deafening roars of shelling.