Blast damages school in Lakki

Published
0

LAKKI MARWAT Jan 1: Unknown miscreants exploded two home-made explosive devices at boys’ primary school in Dallokhel village here late on Monday night, damaging a portion of its boundary wall.

An official said that the bombs weighed 2.5 kg each and the watchman who was present in the school building remained unhurt. Officials of law-enforcement agencies have launched a search operation in the area following the incident. In another such incident the same night, unknown miscreants attacked a house with a hand grenade in Abakhel village.

“The hand grenade exploded in a compound of the house of one Shad Nabi,” an official said, adding that the blast did not cause any human or property loss.

Meanwhile, sub-divisional education officer Rehmatullah Khan on Tuesday asked the heads of primary schools to ensure presence of watchmen in their respective schools during night time.

The instructions to this effect have been delivered to headmasters in Meenakhel, Tajazai, Serai Gambila, Tattarkhel, Gandi Khankhel and Kala Manjiwala circles, said an official. He said that officials of police and education departments would also pay visits to schools at night time to check presence of watchmen on duty.

Opinion

Editorial

Wheat price dilemma
Updated 26 Oct, 2026

Wheat price dilemma

A price no buyer is obliged or financially equipped to pay is only a number. Growers seem to have grasped this before the government did.
Encounter culture
Updated 26 Oct, 2026

Encounter culture

Whether police actions in "encounters" were legitimate or unlawful can only be established through credible investigations.
Recognising distress
26 Oct, 2026

Recognising distress

THE deaths of two families in Karachi, being investigated as suspected murder-suicides, raise disturbing questions...
Prudent warning
Updated 25 Oct, 2026

Prudent warning

Muslim countries have warned against a new conflict. But will the war lobbies in Washington and Tel Aviv listen?
Party of one
25 Oct, 2026

Party of one

IT ill behoves a political party that claims to be the biggest and most popular in the country to be so mired in...
Reckless driving
25 Oct, 2026

Reckless driving

THERE is a lack of official data documenting the crisis, but even by the most conservative estimates, over a dozen...