Landi Kotal school blast kills security official, injures two others

Two bombs exploded at a government boys school in Landi Kotal.

LANDI KOTAL: A security official was killed while two others were injured when two bombs exploded at a government run primary school in Landi Kotal, a sub-division of Khyber Agency. The blast also destroyed the school building in the process.

Abdul Nabi, senior official of the Political Administration speaking to The Express Tribune, said militants had targeted a boys primary school located at Khalo Khan Kalay in the early hours Tuesday morning. The resultant explosion destroyed two out of the four rooms and an outer wall of the school.

That explosion seemed to be a lure for security officials. “When the Khasadar force reached the school to investigate the incident another Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off injuring three people two of which were security men,” Nabi said.

The injured were identified as Waliullah, Murtaza Khan. A third injured man was identified as Abdullah, a local resident. They were shifted to the Agency Headquarter Hospital in Landi Kotal for medical care.

“One of the injured, Murtaza Khan succumbed to his injuries while the other two were under treatment,” an official at the hospital said.

More than seventy schools have been destroyed by militants in Khyber Tribal Area , out of which 23 schools have been destroyed in Landi Kotal alone. Majority of the schools have been targeted in the operation struck area of Bara Tehsil.