3 killed, school blown up in NW Pakistan

At least two men, including a militant commander named Umer Afridi, were killed and two children were wounded after a remote-controlled roadside bomb went off in the Tirah valley area of Khyber tribal region on Monday.

The injured children were transferred to a local hospital.

In another inicident, the explosion of a bomb in a house on the outskirts of city of Peshawar claimed the life of a woman and injured two children.

Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the blast.

Meanwhile, unknown militants blew up a state-run school in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province early Monday.

The four-room boy’s primary school was destroyed in the attack that caused no human loss.

The police and bomb disposal squad reached the scene of the blast.

No group has yet claimed responsibility of the attack. However, the local administration has blamed pro-Taliban militants for the attack.

According to official statistics, over 500 schools were destroyed by militants in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal regions in the recent years, leaving tens of thousands of children without access to education.

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