KHAR: Two persons, including a Levies official, were wounded in a remote-controlled explosion in Gat Agra area of Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Saturday, officials said.

They said Abdul Wahab Khan, a Levies official, was going to a nearby mosque from his home in Gat Agra village for offering prayers when a bomb placed on the way exploded, wounding him and a boy.

The officials said the bomb was detonated with a remote control.

Residents of the nearby areas rushed to the spot after they heard the blast and took the injured to the agency headquarters hospital, Khar, for treatment.

Doctors at the hospital said both the wounded sustained minor injuries and their condition was out of danger.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.

The bomb explosion was the second such incident in the hilly Gat Agra area during the past two days.

On Friday, a member of a peace committee, Malik Abdur Rahman, was also killed in a roadside blast in the same area.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2018