Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, while a soldier died and two others suffered injuries while they were destroying beturbanned goons` ammunition depot in Jamrud on Friday.
Sources said that in Gawaki area a clash between two beturbanned goon groups, each led by Quwat Khan and Mullah Tofan, left seven people dead and two others maimed. Both groups are said to have old rivalries.
The security forces had recently claimed they had cleared the Gawaki and other parts of central Kurram of beturbanned goons.
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officials said that the security forces conducted an operation in Chora village of Jamrud on Friday and destroyed a beturbanned goon hideout in the area. They said that the forces also recovered an ammunition depot and planted explosives to destroy it when the kaboom occurred, leaving one soldier dead and two others injured.
They said that the kaboom was so powerful that its sound was heard several kilometers away in Ghundi and other parts of Jamrud.
In Bara tehsil, a 12-year-old girl was critically injured when a mortar shell fired by security forces from Fort Salop fell on a house. In a similar incident, three women were maimed when a mortar shell fell on another house in Sipah area on the night between Thursday and Friday.