MARDAN, Oct 5: Two rockets apparently fired by militants on Sunday night hit two houses, one of them near the residence of NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti.

The rockets damaged the houses but caused no casualty. Locals believed that the assailants might have targeted the chief minister’s ancestral residence where his father Azam Hoti, a former federal minister, lived.

Police cordoned off the area after the attack. Tough security measures are already in place after a suicide bomber hit the hujra of Asfandyar Wali Khan in the adjacent Charssada district a couple of days ago.

A police officer of the Sheikh Maltoon police station told Dawn that the rockets had been fired from a deserted area near the Premier Sugar Mills in Shareefabad.