An under-construction girls’ middle school in the Tank district was partially damaged when an improvised explosive device planted by unknown miscreants went off on Wednesday.
Local police said the IED was planted near the boundary walls of the middle school which exploded with a big bang and damaged the walls and a room of the school.
Soon after receiving information, Tank police cordoned off the area and started a search operation to nab the perpetrators involved. District Police Officer Tank said five to seven kilograms of explosive was used in the IED blast.
In July this year, a grenade was hurled inside a school for Afghan children in Peshawar’s Tajabad area. However, no one was hurt as no student was present there. No damage was caused to the building of Khushal High School either, a police official had said.
In the same month, an explosion took place at a girls’ school in the Haider Khel area of North Waziristan tribal district when the students were taking their intermediate examination. No injuries were reported in the blast.
Last year, an explosion at a madressah in Peshawar killed eight students and injured around 120 others. A senior official had said at the time that the militant Islamic State group was the primary suspect in the bombing.
With additional input from APP
