Five private English medium schools providing co-education remained closed in the city on Friday after law enforcing agencies advised their management to make security arrangements for themselves. The institutions are in the grip of rumours that suicide bombers may target private schools that provide co-education. The five educational institutions – the City School, Peshawar Grammar School, Frontier Education Foundation, four branches of the Beacon House School in various parts of the city and a branch of Bloomfield School in the University Town – were closed by their respective administrations after receiving instructions from security agencies that terrorists may target them. The schools’ students told Daily Times that their teachers had asked them not to come to school as there was a threat of bomb blast. Ayesha, 12, student of class eight in the Peshawar Grammar School, said that after their teachers’ instructions, every student was now reluctant to attend the school. However, the Army Public Schools and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Schools remained open in the city, with tight security arrangements. “Police have advised the private schools’ management to make security arrangements on the own in the aftermath of terrorist activities,” said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP-Operations) Iftikhar Khan, adding that nobody had threatened the schools.