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Militants blow up school in NW Pakistan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-05 23:46

ISLAMABAD: Militants blew up a school Thursday with explosives in northwest Pakistan's Khyber tribal agency, a private TV reported.

According to the channel Express, the militants attacked the schools with bombs due to which all the rooms and walls of the building destroyed.

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No casualty was reported in the incident.

This was the second attack at schools in five days in Pakistan' s lawless Khyber tribal district. Militants Sunday blew up a girls school in the area, destroying the building and wounding four people in neighboring homes.

Two blasts on October 20 on a university campus in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad forced the authorities shut schools across Pakistan for one week.

Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley of the North West Frontier Province alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in a district used to be a tourist resort.