Miran Shah, Pakistan, Dec 07: Four rockets exploded near a school housing US security personnel in the remote western region of Pakistan but there was no damage or reports of casualties, officials said today. A witness told reporters that residents of the village Miran Shah, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, were shaken out of their beds at night by the blasts.
Three rockets exploded a few hundred metres away from the school building where a few US security personnel are temporarily stationed to check the movement of Taliban and al Qaeda members in Pakistan's tribal rim.
Another exploded closer to the compound but did not cause any damage, said one local official who did not want to be named.
Police and paramilitary border forces have detained at least 25 members of a local tribe from whose village the rockets were believed to have been fired, the official said.
But he said it was too early to determine the motive for the attack. Fiercely independent Pashtun tribesmen in the region are heavily armed and many possess rocket launchers.
Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, has sent its army to the autonomous tribal rim with Afghanistan to hunt for Taliban and al Qaeda members.
Bureau Report