Grenade attack injures 18 in Nowshera

NOWSHERA: At least eighteen persons including five security personnel were injured in a grenade attack that occurred on GT Road near PAF Engineering Centre Tuesday morning, security sources told.

According to security forces, unknown attackers riding on two motorbikes hurled two hand grenades at main GT Road near PAF Engineering Centre gate no.3 that hurt ten persons, including five security men and five civilians.

Sources told that many young men were present at the site as recruitment for PAF engineering wing was underway.

Security forces cordoned off the area while the injured people were shifted to DHQ hospital and Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

The security sources said that the attackers failed to enter the cantonment area where a large number of young men were present for recruitment purpose.