The shell fired from an unknown direction hit the house in the Gabrai area of Mamond.-AFP photo

KHAR: Two women were killed and nine others, including six children, of a same family were injured when a mortar shell hit a house in Mamond Tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Tuesday.

Sources said that the shell fired from an unknown direction hit the house in the Gabrai area of Mamond. The injured were later shifted to a hospital where the condition of some of them was serious.

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