A lady teacher was killed and three minor students were injured in a grenade attack on a private school in the Shabqadar district Charsadda on Wednesday. According to sources said unknown gunmen lobbed a hand grenade on Askari Public School and College in Shabqadar district Charsadda town when teachers and students were leaving for home.
The explosion resulted in the death of school teacher Madam Heney and injured two children. The injured were shifted to nearby civil hospital where the teacher breathed her last during treatment. The police and administration sources confirmed that a lady was killed and three kids were injured in the attack. The school had received letters a month earlier which threatened the administration to direct students to wear shalwar kameez instead of pants and shirts, according to sources.
The sources further said that miscreants fled the scene after launching the attack and a search operation was under way. Security forces cordoned off the area and started search operation to track down the attackers who managed to flee from the scene. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak have condemned the attack and sympathised with the families of those targeted.
Earlier, the PTI government had also decided in principle to remove 'objectionable material' from the textbooks of local primary schools to please the key partner of the ruling coalition, Jamaat-i-Islami. JI had objected to pictures of girls without dupatta, X-mas cake, Cross emblem, good morning expression.