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Militants blow up girls' school in Khyber
[Dawn] Taliban militants blew up a girls' school in Khyber district on Tuesday, the third such attack in the region so far this month, officials said.An intelligence official in the area said Taliban attacked the government-run school overnight when no one was at the property. 'The girls' middle school was badly damaged because of the explosion, now the school building is almost out of use. The classrooms, desks and chairs were also damaged,' Farooq Khan, a local administrative official told AFP. The incident took place at Yousaf Kely village near Bara town, around 20 kilometres south of Peshawar. Militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years. Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in Swat alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law. Posted by: Fred 2009-11-18 |
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