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Girls' school blown up in Jamrud
 [Pak Daily Times] Unidentified Death Eaters razed to ground a state-run girls' high school on Saturday night by detonating kaboom they planted in the building in Ghundi area of Jamrud tehsil. The total number of destroyed schools in Khyber Agency has reached to 61 with the latest blast. Khyber Agency Education Officer Hashim Khan Afridi said that an bomb planted in the school went off at 1:30am. Resultantly, four classrooms and a veranda of the school were completely destroyed while the rest of the classrooms and other structure of the building was partially damaged. School watchman Baz Muhammad Sikandarkhel said that he was standing at the main gate of the school when he heard a huge kaboom followed by smoke and dust. He said that his house, situated inside the school compound, was also damaged in the blast in which his two sons were also slightly injured. Meanwhile an Afghan national was kidnapped from Khyber area while he was travelling to Afghanistan in a coach on Sunday. The kidnappers reportedly left behind their car in Sheikhwal area of Khyber from where they took away the victim by foot across the mountain, Khasadar sources said.Posted by: Fred 2011-12-19 |
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