Islamabad, January 24: Unknown militants have attacked a state-run school in Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan, killing a security guard and injuring two others.
Officials told Press TV that the militants also detonated a bomb inside the building of the state primary school in Sheikh Mal Khei area of the tribal region early on Tuesday.
The school building was completely destroyed over the blast, they said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Over the past several years, the militants have destroyed hundreds of schools in northwestern Pakistan, especially in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Describing education as ‘unnecessary’ or ‘harmful’ for girls, pro-Taliban militants have banned female education in northwestern Pakistan.
The move has affected thousands of girls in the region and caused the number of enrolments to drop dramatically.
—-Agencies