LANDI KOTAL, March 7: Four militants were killed and six others injured in renewed clashes between two rival groups in Tirah valley on Thursday.

Local sources said that fresh clashes between Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and Ansaarul Islam (AI) took place in Theerak Sangar and Zeerhak Kandaw areas where the two groups attacked each other’s positions with heavy weapons.

The daylong fighting left three Taliban and an activist of AI dead and three each from both the sides injured. AI sources claimed to have captured three bunkers from Taliban in Zeerhak Kandaw area while security forces took control of Nasrat Sangar area.

In Mardan, a school was partially damaged in a blast in Katlang area on Thursday.

Officials said that the building of government primary school for girls in Ikram Khan Banda area of Katlang was damaged when explosives planted there by unidentified militants went off.

In Nowshera, an under-construction building was damaged in a bomb explosion on Thursday.Officials said that unidentified persons planted an explosive device in the under-construction house of former police official Libbas Khan in Azakhel area that went off and damaged the structure. They said that police found another bomb there and defused it safely.

In Mansehra, an improvised explosive device planted in a residential area went off in the small hours of Thursday without causing any loss of life.—Correspondent