An eight-year-old child was killed while three others sustained injuries due to a mortar shell explosion in Upper Kurram Tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) on Sunday, reported the 24NewsHD TV channel.
According to police sources, a mortar shell was fired from an unknown direction at Dander village in the Upper Kurram area.
The injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Parachinar.
The Bomb disposal squad and police reached the spot and started the investigation.
Earlier in September, a woman and her four children died after a mortar shell struck their home in the North Waziristan tribal district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). Two other family members were critically injured in the incident, which happened in the Garyom area of the district.