Militants attack girls’ school in Khyber region
Islamabad: Militants today blew up a
state-run girls' school in Pakistan's troubled Khyber tribal
region, the second such attack in the area in four days.
Officials of the local political administration said
militants used 25 to 30 kg of explosives in the attack on the
two-storey school at Ika Khel area of Khyber Agency.
Eight of the school’s 26 rooms were completely
destroyed.
There were no reports of casualties in the attack.
A total of 750 girls were enrolled at the school.
Four days ago, militants had destroyed an 18-room
government high school for girls at Kari Gar village in Khyber
Agency.
Four persons in nearby homes were injured by the
blast.
Militants who are opposed to the education of girls
have destroyed hundreds of schools in northwest Pakistan over
the past two years.
Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley
alone.
Authorities briefly shut schools and colleges across
Pakistan last month after two suicide bombers struck the
International Islamic University in Islamabad.
Bureau Report