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India-Pakistan
Taliban men blow up Pakistani school
2009-11-22
[Bangla Daily Star] Taliban militants blew up an empty school in a tribal town in northwest Pakistan on Saturday severely damaging the building, officials said.
O brave, brave Lions of Islam!
Militants planted explosives near the building in the Khyber region's Bara town, around 20 kilometres (13 miles) south of Peshawar, local administration chief Farooq Khan told AFP by telephone. "The explosive device was fitted with a timer," he said. It went off in the afternoon when the school was closed, he said, adding that nobody was injured.

Taliban militants blew up a government-run girls' school in the same area on Monday night. That school was also badly damaged.

Bara is close to Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, which has been hit by a series of bomb blasts in recent weeks.

Earlier three suspected militants blew themselves up after police surrounded them in Pakistani-administered Kashmir on Saturday but there were no casualties, police and officials said.

"Police chasing the suspects surrounded them in Sarar village" on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, capital of the Pakistani zone of the divided Himalayan region, local police official Raja Faisal said.

"The militants, who were on foot, blew themselves up after police surrounded them," he said, adding that there were no police casualties.

An AFP photographer said the bodies were lying in an open field with their limbs scattered in the area crowded by a large number of villagers.

Local administration chief Chaudhry Imtiaz said he believed they were militants who fled the ongoing military offensive against the Taliban in the tribal South Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.

"Police succeeded in foiling a major terror plot," he told reporters.
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