Girls’ school blown up in Orakzai Agency

KALAYA: Militants blew up a state-run school for girls in Orakzai Agency, official sources said on Sunday.The sources said that unidentified persons planted explosives at various places in the Government Girls Middle School in Bezot area in lower Orakzai Agency and triggered the explosion early in the day.
“Two rooms and verandah of the school were destroyed and the boundary wall was damaged in the explosion which took place at 6am,” an official of the political administration said.Agency Education Officer Habibullah confirmed that the primary section of the school was destroyed by two remote-controlled blasts.
He said the political administration had arrested the watchman of the school.Habibullah added that 141 schools had been destroyed in Orakzai Agency out of which 38 schools had been reconstructed while 106 needed reconstruction on emergency basis.
The official said the delay in the reconstruction of the damaged or destroyed schools had deprived 12,000 students of education. He stressed the need to expedite construction work on the destroyed schools to save the future of these students.