Bombing: School blown up in Khyber Agency

PESHAWAR: Unidentified terrorists destroyed a school in Bara Tehsil in Khyber Agency on Saturday, taking the total number of schools destroyed to 42 in the last two years.  The political authorities confirmed that unknown terrorists planted explosives outside a boys’ school in the Shalober area of Bara, which destroyed the school’s building. However, no casualties have been reported so far. Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2011.