Mansehra (Pakistan), Sep. 14 : At least 14 policemen were injured, three of them critically, in a remote control bomb blast near Central Jail here on Monday.

The Nation quoted the District Police Officer Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur, as saying that the bomb placed alongside the road, went off when a police van was passing by.

He said that van was carrying prisoners from the Central Jail to Abbottabad for the hearing of cases.

Mansehra (NWFP, Pakistan), Aug. 17 : Militants, purportedly affiliated to the Taliban, have sent threatening letters to two beauty parlours here, asking them to close their businesses or face the consequences.

Official sources were quoted by The News, as saying that the letters were sent to the Saba and Fair beauty parlours in the city.

The beauty parlours have been asked to wind up their businesses by August 18 (Tuesday), or face attacks.

Following the threat, the sources said, both the parlours were closed.