LANDI KOTAL, Dec 15: Unidentified persons in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency demolished a government school for girls and took all its doors, windows and furniture on the night between Friday and Saturday.

Local sources said that a group of unidentified outlaws demolished completely the building of Haji Jan Gul Girls School in Speen Qabar area of Sipah. They loaded all the doors, windows, furniture and even bricks of the building in tractor trolleys and fled in the darkness of the night, they said. Militants during the last three and a half years of military operation in Bara have destroyed nearly 70 government schools. — Correspondent

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