Security on high alert after rocket attacks.

PESHAWAR: Security has been put on high alert following rocket attacks in different areas of the Provincial capital on late Monday night in which three people were killed and several were injured as some of the rockets landed in residential areas in different localities. According to the police, strict security measures have been taken in different parts of the provincial metropolis in the wake of the rocket attacks by unknown miscreants that reportedly hit houses in the posh area of Hayatabad Phase-6, Wali Abad, Pushtakhara, Canal Town and Abdara Road. It is also reported that Frontier Corps Camp in Hayatabad Phase-6 was also targeted however no causality occurred. Twelve rockets were fired within just few minutes, No one claimed immediate responsibility for the rocket assault. The police have taken extra-ordinary security measures in Hayatabad, Pushtakhara, Canal Town and some of the other areas adjacent to tribal area of Khyber Agency that have been declared sensitive. Meanwhile, several suspected people have been arrested from the Peshtakhara area as police has started search operation for the miscreants. Moreover, on Tuesday, bomb disposal squad difused another rocket which landed just outside a house in Canal Town area. According to an eye witness whose house was also hit in the rocket attacks, he saw smoke coming out of the ground. “As soon as I saw smoke, I called police and after sometime the bomb disposal squad arrived on the scene,” he said. While talking to The Frontier Post Inspector of bomb disposal Squad Hukam Khan said that the peace of rocket burried in the ground was very dangerous for that perticular reason road from both the sides was blocked and people were advised not to come near the spot.