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India-Pakistan
3 Russian-made missiles fired at Peshawar
2006-11-07
Unknown men fired three Russian-made missiles at the provincial capital early on Monday morning, but there were no casualties, police said on Monday. “The first missile hit the Darul Uloom Muhammadia madrassa at around 2am, but there was no loss of life and property,” Operations SSP Iftikhar Khan told reporters. He said that another two missiles hit Pawaka – in the Pishtakhara police precincts – and Safaid Dheri areas, but did not explode. Khan suspected that the Russian-made NDR-12 missiles were fired from the Khyber Agency and were directed towards the Peshawar International Airport.

However, he said the police was trying to identify the exact location from where the missiles were fired. This is the second incident in which unknown men fired missiles at the provincial capital. A Russian-made missile hit Peshawar on October 17, but no one was hurt. Some police officials, asking not to be named, said the missiles might have been fired by tribesmen in reaction to an army airstrike on a madrassa in Bajaur Agency. The government suspected that the madrassa was a training camp for militants.
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