WANA, May 4: A young boy was killed and two children injured when an unexploded shell burst in the Sheen Warsak area here on Monday evening. The children were playing when they found the shell lying at the house of one Khan Gul Karmuzkhel Wazir. As they struck it with a stone, it exploded killing Khan Gul's 14-year-old son Janat Gul on the spot and injuring the two other children.

The children were taken to the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Wana, where their condition was stated to stable. Local residents said that the shell had been fired by the army troops during the operation against the Taliban and Al Qaeda elements in the tribal territory.

They said that many more shells fired by the army troops were lying unexploded far and wide in the erstwhile troubled region, which they feared posed a serious threat to the life and property of the tribesmen.

The tribesmen said that they had seen many unexploded shells in the Sheen Warsak, Wazha Ghundai, Azam Warsak, Kalosha and other villages in the area.

GRENADE ATTACK: Unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade at the house of one Mashah Jan in the Ashrafkhel village near Wana town here on Monday night. However, nobody was hurt in the attack. Locals said some assailants attacked the house of Mashah Jan with a hand grenade in the middle of the night, but the grenade fell on the roof of a vacant room.