Two schools blown up in Kohat, Tank: Police

Two time bombs were planted inside boys school in Kohat; no casualties reported.

PESHAWAR: Five rooms were damaged of a boys middle school when two time bombs planted along its walls blew up on Tuesday morning in Kohat, confirmed the police.

In a similar incident, a girls school was blown up in the Ama Khel area of Tank district by unknown miscreants.

However, no casualties has been reported in both the incidents.

Schools, colleges and other government installations have been consistently attacked by militants in the areas in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa. Police and security officials have arrested a number of suspected militants in raids in the last few weeks involved in destroying schools.

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.