Mortar shell hits house in restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: 5 killed

At least five persons, including four children and a woman from the same family, were killed when a mortar shell hit their house in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan on Wednesday. 

Two occupants of the house were also injured



in the incident that occurred in the Shaktoi Shahikhel area of Laddha tehsil in the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, the police said. The injured were immediately taken to a nearby hospital.