In a pre-dawn operation on Friday, suspected terrorists launched a rocket attack on Pakistan's Military Academy in Abbottabad just 500 yards from the site where al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was found and killed by U.S. Special Forces last year.
A boundary wall of the Academy was damaged in the attack, but no one was hurt in the incident, reports quoting local officials and police said.
A local government official identified as Imtiaz Hussain Shah said police had begun an investigation but it was unclear who was behind the daring attack in which nine rockets were fired. "Three hit the boundary wall of the Academy while six fell on open ground," he said. The attack came hours after a visit by Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to the British-built garrison town.
In a helicopter-borne operation, U.S. Navy Seals raided a nearby fortified mansion and gunned down bin Laden and later buried his body somewhere in the Arabian Sea. The midnight raid of May 2 last had embarrassed Pakistan's powerful military souring Pak-U.S. relations.
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