Two schools blown up

Separate attacks at government-run schools in Kohat and Swabi.

Two governments schools were blown up by unidentified person in Kohat and Swabi on Satuday.

A government-run high school for boys in the Turkee Ismaeel Khel area of Kohat was partially destroyed by explosives.

In the first such incident to have taken place in Swabi, a government-run primary school was attacked and badly damaged in an explosion.

On March 1, 35 girls were injured when grenades were lobbed into a college for women in Mardan.

Floods and militancy have seen 1,896 schools destroyed in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, and 200 schools still remain closed. In Malakand Division, 367 schools were partially damaged and 273 were completely destroyed. As many as 73 educational institutions have been destroyed over the past year alone in the Mohmand Agency in Fata.