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Grid station blown up in Swat

* Security forces withdraw from Kooza Bandai after establishing checkposts

MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Unidentified men blew up a grid station in the Rahimabad area in Mingora, disrupting power supply to Swat and Shangla districts.

The grid station was destroyed with bombs early on Sunday morning. Officials said it would take two to three months to rebuild the grid station and restore power supply to the districts of Swat and Shangla.

WAPDA officials in Mingora said the destruction of the grid station had caused the government losses worth one billion rupees.

According to Online, the grid station was located in the Amman Kot chowk. A minor girl, a woman and three others were injured in the blast. They were shifted to the Saidu Sharif Hospital. The news agency quoted an employee at the grid station as saying that unidentified men held the staff hostage and fixed remote control bombs in the control room.

Withdrawal: Meanwhile, security forces withdrew from the Kooza Bandai area in Kabal tehsil after establishing three checkposts in the area, officials said. Taliban had vacated the area two days ago after an agreement with a local jirga.

APP quoted a press release of the Media Information Centre in Swat as saying that the forces had cleared the area of landmines and improvised explosive devices. A relief camp was set up to assist in the rehabilitation of the displaced locals returning to their homes.

Four members of a family died when a mortar shell went off in the Bara Bandai area of Kabal tehsil. Police said Bakht Noor’s children were playing with a mortar shell at their home when it exploded. Noor, his two sons and a daughter died.

In the Dadawar area of Barikot tehsil, four people were injured in a blast at a house, police said. Police arrested the owner of the house. staff report/agencies

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