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July 26, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - A missile, which apparently had been buried for years, exploded on Tuesday when it was struck by a city worker who was planting trees. The employee died and three other workers were injured, two of them seriously, said a government official. The accident occurred behind the prime minister's palatial residence, where Pakistan's military chief Gen. Pervez Musharraf now has his office, said Iftikar Hussain Shah. He lives in neighboring Rawalpindi. A gardner was digging when he struck the missile, the make of which was not known, said Shah. "Police are trying to determine the type of bomb and how it got there?" he said. It's believed the missile may have landed there in the late 1980s when a military ammunition depot exploded sending missiles raining down on the federal capital and neighboring Rawalpindi. |