Friday 20 January 2012

School blown up at Torkham border


Ashrafudin Pirzada
 LANDIKOTAL: The numbers of destroyed schools rose to 64 in Khyber agency when another government-run school was blown up at Torkham border,official and local sources said on Friday night.
 The sources said that unidentified people had planted explosive device inside the government primary school Bacha Mina,the border village in Pakistan's Khyber agency that went off at 8:40 pm. Three rooms and a veranda were caved in while the boundary wall received minor damge, sources said.
 It was the lone government school built at Torkham border in 1980s after the Russian agression on Afghanistan in which 95 percent children were from the Afghan families residing at the border town for the last four decades.

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