DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Rockets rain on Dera

Published December 24, 2008

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 23 Unidentified persons fired eight rockets at sensitive installations in the city and cantonment areas on Tuesday morning. However, no casualty was reported in the attack.

The rockets were fired at 4am in the morning. One of the rockets landed at a tennis court near the residences of Major-General Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Station Commander Khadim Hussain in the cantonment area. The second one hit the floor of a house and the third rocket landed at Gul Zaman street, in Bazaar Kalan near city police station.

Two other rockets landed at an open field at the back of an office of Pakistan Air Force and the sixth one blasted at Noor mosque in cantonment area. Two of the rockets did not explode.

Police said that rockets were fired from the fields near Baloch Hotel on Multan Road. Police also recovered ten launchers from the fields, warheads of four rockets and two unfired rockets. Police said that rockets were Russian-made.

The local administration beefed up security in the city soon after the attacks.

Meanwhile, police arrested scores of suspected tribesmen in Gillani Town, Ara and Din Pur areas in a crackdown.

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