Mortar bomb kills mother, 3 children

PESHAWAR: A stray mortar bomb smashed through a house in a Sheikhan village, a suburb of Peshawar close to the Khyber tribal district, killing three children and their mother and injuring their father, police said. "The victims were asleep. A mother and her three children died on the spot," Shafiullah Khan, a senior police officer, told AFP. The Frontier Corps denied on Sunday firing the mortar in Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal region. A spokesman for FC sent short messages via mobile phones to me... more

URL: http://paktribune.com/news/Mortar-bomb-kills-mother-3-children-251510.html