ABBOTTABAD: Attackers on Friday fired nine rockets at Pakistan’s top military academy, damaging its outer wall in a major security breach near the home where Osama Bin Laden lived for years, officials said.

No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack and it was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in the mountains overlooking the Kakul Academy.

Officials blamed terrorists for the attack, which came one day after Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, visited Abbottabad.

The garrison city of Abbottabad was considered one of the safest parts of the country until American special forces on May 2 found and killed the Al Qaeda founder in a compound where he apparently lived for five years.

Three rockets damaged the outer wall of the academy, which is just 500 metres from the site of the US Navy SEALs raid that seriously damaged already turbulent relations between Pakistan and the United States.

“Nine rockets were fired. Three rockets hit the boundary wall of the military academy and damaged it. No one was hurt in the attack,” Imtiaz Hussain Shah, a top local government official in Abbottabad said.

“We have launched a search operation,” Shah added. Mohammad Karim Khan, Abbottabad police chief, confirmed the attack.