QUETTA, Aug 3: Suspected Taliban militants set on fire furniture, computers and records of a private girls’ school in a suburb of the city on Sunday morning.

Police officers of Sariab Police Station said that four rooms of the Babul Islam Model Public Girls School in Ghilji colony had been gutted.

They said that the militants sprinkled petrol and set ablaze furniture, computers and everything else that they found in the classrooms.

The computers which did not catch fire were thrown into the school’s underground water tank.

Meanwhile, the Balochistan Cable Operators Association has suspended cable service from Saturday in several areas of the city after cables were damaged in several areas.

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