Two children wounded in grenade attack in Upper Dir school: police
Doctors identified the two children as Ismail and Aminul Haq of grade 2 and 1 respectively
Two children, Ismail and Aminul Haq were injured in a blast at a primary school in Upper Dir. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR:
A hand grenade exploded Tuesday, wounding two school children, one critically, as they were playing with it in Upper Dir school, police said.
The incident took place a primary school in Dhob Darra of northwestern Upper Dir valley, where Taliban militants have been active.
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Two children who came to school early found a grenade lying on the ground. They picked it up and started playing with it before removing its pin, senior police official Zahid Khan told AFP.
DPO Athar Waheed earlier said the police were investigating the incident, "Initial reports indicated an IED explosion." However, he later said the attackers might have thrown a grenade inside the school during assembly. A bomb disposal unit official told The Express Tribune that, "It looked like a hand grenade thrown to target the children during assembly."
One of the children was critically wounded while the other had light injuries, Khan said, adding that police suspect militants had left the grenade there.
Taliban militants stormed a school in Peshawar in December 2014, killing more than 150 people, mostly children, in Pakistan's deadliest-ever terror attack.
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Radicalised militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan, while the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan's Swat Valley in 2012 shocked the world.
The army launched an operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out militant bases in the tribal areas and so bring an end to the bloody insurgency that has cost thousands of civilian lives since 2004.
A hand grenade exploded Tuesday, wounding two school children, one critically, as they were playing with it in Upper Dir school, police said.
The incident took place a primary school in Dhob Darra of northwestern Upper Dir valley, where Taliban militants have been active.
Peshawar school massacre mastermind confirmed dead in drone attack: ISPR
Two children who came to school early found a grenade lying on the ground. They picked it up and started playing with it before removing its pin, senior police official Zahid Khan told AFP.
DPO Athar Waheed earlier said the police were investigating the incident, "Initial reports indicated an IED explosion." However, he later said the attackers might have thrown a grenade inside the school during assembly. A bomb disposal unit official told The Express Tribune that, "It looked like a hand grenade thrown to target the children during assembly."
One of the children was critically wounded while the other had light injuries, Khan said, adding that police suspect militants had left the grenade there.
Taliban militants stormed a school in Peshawar in December 2014, killing more than 150 people, mostly children, in Pakistan's deadliest-ever terror attack.
Afghan president ordered US drone strike on APS mastermind, says envoy
Radicalised militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan, while the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan's Swat Valley in 2012 shocked the world.
The army launched an operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out militant bases in the tribal areas and so bring an end to the bloody insurgency that has cost thousands of civilian lives since 2004.