Girls school blown up in Badaber

PESHAWAR: Unknown miscreants blew up a girls’ school in Sulemankhel area of Badaber late Wednesday night, police said.

Official sources said the miscreants planted explosives at school building, which went off at around 1:15 a.m. The blast destroyed boundary walls of the school, besides damaging seven of its nine rooms.

According to an official of the bomb disposal squad, the perpetrators planted five bombs, weighing around four to five kilograms each, while a rocket was also fired on the school building.This is the third incident of its kind. Earlier, militants destroyed a girls’ high school in Badaber and three private schools on Warsak Road.