Girls primary school blown up in Mardan

MARDAN: Terrorists blew up a girls primary school in Jamal Garhi village late Saturday night, police and locals said. “The blast, which took place at the Government Girls Primary School in the Srekh Banada in Jamal Ghari in the limits of Jabbar police station at 12:30am, destroyed rooms and the boundary wall of the school.” No casualty was reported in the incident. Following the incident, the police launched a search operation in the area but no arrest had been made till filing of this report. Police registered a case against unidentified terrorists. The sources said that for the last several weeks, terrorists had stepped up their activities in the district and targeted several girls and boys schools in rural areas in the limits of Chura, Jabbar and Katlang police stations in Mardan. On November 2, a bomb disposal unit defused a locally made bomb planted under a bridge in Par Hoti Police Station limits. The same day, the authorities defused another device planted to a telecommunications tower of a private firm in the limits of City Police Station. Sources further said that the authorities defused two device planted to a deserted shop in Begut Gunj Bazaar in the way of Yaum-e-Ashur procession. online

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