LANDI KOTAL, Oct 27: The beheaded body of a volunteer of an anti-Taliban tribal lashkar was found in Bara while a Levies official and a civilian were injured in a blast in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency on Thursday.

Officials said that militants belonging to Lashkar-i-Islam kidnapped a volunteer of Akkakhel tribal lashkar the other day. His beheaded body was found at a deserted place on Thursday morning, they added.

Two activists of Lashkar-i-Islam were killed on Wednesday when they clashed with the tribal lashkar in Akkakhel. Officials said that the beheading of the volunteer could be a result of Wednesday's clash.

Also, two Nato containers were destroyed in a blast in Torkham on Thursday evening, eyewitnesses said.

They said that the containers were parked in a parking lot near the border when an explosive device fitted in one of them went off. Both the containers caught fire and were destroyed.

Meanwhile, a Levies official Hayatullah and a pedestrian identified as Siffatullah received injuries when an explosive device went off near the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Landi Kotal on Thursday morning.

Political authorities registered a case against unidentified persons and started investigations. In another incident, a khasadar wad killed in a road accident at Torkham border.

Officials said that Mualim Khan, a resident of Loe Shalman, was critically injured in the accident and later succumbed to his injuries in a local hospital.

In Peshawar, unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at a CNG station on Ring Road in the limits of Faqirabad police station on Thursday evening. A police official said that they did not have further details, however, the staff at the filling station remained unhurt in the attack.

Another source, quoting locals, said that two people riding a motorbike hurled the hand grenade at Mohmand CNG pump and fled away.

He said that police cordoned off the entire area and started checking of suspected vehicles.

In Lakki Marwat district, a house was partially damaged when an explosive device, planted outside it, went off in Essakkhel village on Wednesday night.

The residents of the area said that the family of Umar Khan, the owner of the house and an official of Pakistan Post, remained unhurt. The explosion damaged rooms and boundary wall of the house. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blast.

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