18 Pak troops killed

ISLAMABAD, July 8 : Eighteen Pakistani army personnel including a Captain . were killed at noon on Sunday when a lively shell exploded at a demolition side near Nowshera, some 30 km northwest of Peshwar, capital of Pakistan's , Northwest Frontier Province, reports Xinhua.

According to official reports reaching here this morning, several others including an army Major were injured on the spot and three military trucks loaded with ammunition were totally damaged. Detailing the iheident the reports said that at the time of blast as many as 26 personnel of the army corps of engineers were engaged in defusing the ordnance collected after last month's devastation of the army's ordnance depot in Nowshera. The Nowshera arms depot blast, which took place in the afternoon of May 31 this year, had reportedly claimed more than 40 lives and left 200 others injured. Investigations are under way.