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.
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Pakistan can never be safe until the Government doesn’t comes up with a clear cut strategy of stopping the use of improvised explosive devices.
Agree. Improvised explosive devices can only be stopped if detected, and the recent gadgets would definitely help Pakistan and other terrorism-plagued regions to get rid of this menace.
10 robots and 10 equipped vehicles to stop the use of improvised explosive devices in Pakistan? The figure should have been 1000 robots and vehicles.
EU are aware of the fact that if terrorism is not stopped, they too would be becoming its victims soon. Therefore, they have taken a timely measure of providing Pakistan with the modern technology to stop the usage of improvised explosive devices by the terrorists.
It is also important for the government to stop the use of these improvised explosive devises so that peace can be restored in the country.
The use of improvised explosive devises must be brought to an end. Many innocent people are being killed due to this.
If the use of Improvised explosive devises is stopped the re-occurring blasts could be stopped as well.
@ farukh i certainly agree with you sir. And we should be vocal that the militants have been using IED's and we have failed to make a counter strategy.
It is sad news that schools are being destroyed, particularly in areas that are already in dire straits. There is already a deficiency of schools in these areas and militants are using IEDs to destroy whatever exists.