Islamist militants blew up a girls' school in Khyber district on Thursday, the second such attack in the lawless region on the Afghan border in four days, officials said. "Militants used 25 to 30 kilograms (55 to 66 pounds) of explosives to blow up the two-storey school on the outskirts of Bara town," local administration official Farooq Khan told AFP.
Khan said the school had 26 rooms in all, including a science laboratory, adding that the explosion completely destroyed eight rooms. Another senior administration official Shafeer Ullah confirmed the incident. The new attack came four days after twin bombs ripped through an 18-room government high school for girls at Kari Gar village in Khyber wounding four people in neighbouring homes.