PESHAWAR, Aug 21 As the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are reeling from the catastrophic calamity, militants continue to destroy whatever has been left, killing more people in Peshawar and its adjacent tribal areas.

Three people were killed and fiver others injured in firing by militants and security personnel in separate incidents in Peshawar, semi-tribal area of Kohat and Bara area of Khyber Agency on Saturday.

The suspected militants also destroyed buildings of two schools in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency and Kohat on Saturday, a police official told Dawn.

In the first incident suspected militants attacked a police checkpost located at Bara Qadeem (old Bara) area at Peshawar-Bara Road killing a civilian and injuring three policemen on Saturday.

Head constable Noor Shad, constable Hidayat Shah and community police constable Tamash Khan were injured in the broad day light attack on the checkpost. The dead civilian could not be identified, a police official said.

The station house officer of Sarband Police Station Fazal Maula Khan told Dawn that the attackers, riding three motorcycles and armed with Kalashnikovs, belonged to the Mangal Bagh-led proscribed militant organization of Khyber Agency.

The checkpost, he said was jointly manned by police and Frontier Constabulary. However the militants targeted the police. He said the injured policemen had been shifted to hospital and the area was scanned for tracking down the attackers but they had escaped.

The cantonment circle Superintendent of police Shafiullah Khan when contacted, said that the attackers had fled to the tribal area. However, he said police had foiled the attempt by timely encountering it.

“Police are ready to face whatever situation arises but the militants had come through a backside pathway on motorcycles and opened fire from a street,” he said.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar had disclosed on Thursday last that militants were regrouping and could attack Peshawar if appropriate steps were not taken in this regard.

The checkpost is located at the border of Peshawar and Khyber Agency where security used to be on high alert for most of the time for the past one year while Bara Tehsil is virtually under continuous curfew but despite that the militants manage to come through the area and attack the law enforcement agencies.

An official said that the police registered a terrorism case at Sarband police station against unidentified terrorists and cordoned off the entire area for searching the culprits.

In the second incident the suspected militants killed son of a pro-government tribal elder and wounded two others in an attack on his house in the small hours of Saturday, reports Our Correspondent from Khar.

Sources said a group of over 40 suspected militants attacked the house of pro-government tribal elder and active member of Charmang peace committee Malak Gul Khan with heavy weapons, killing his young son Shahabuddin and injuring two others, Fazal Rehman and Zaffar Khan critically.

No group has so far claimed responsibility of the attack. However, an official of the political administration said that Malak Gul Khan was active member of Charmang Peace Committee and played key role in persuading militant commanders to surrender to security forces. He also helped the political administration in expelling militants and their supporters from the tribal region.

The official said Mr Khan had received threats from militant groups several times. He said the militants attacked his houses despite a security provided to him by the administration.

The security forces and political administration during a search operation in the area arrested several suspected persons and recovered huge cache of arms.

SCHOOLS DESTROYED Militants destroyed another government school in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Friday night, sources said.

The sources said that a group of militants in pickup vehicles came to Malakdin Khel area and planted explosives on the building of Tamash Khan Kallay Government Primary School. They denoted the explosives which destroyed two rooms and boundary wall of the school. The militants managed to flee in the darkness of night.

In Jhansi area of Bara, a minor girl was killed when security forces opened indiscriminate firing on militants. Sources said that the minor girl became a target when forces fired in different direction to scare away militant during patrolling of the area.In Jamrud tehsil, Khasadar force recovered three abducted men during a raid on a house in Bakarabad locality. Line Officer Tehseenullah said that a Khasadar party raided the house after receiving information about the presence of three abducted men. The raiding party recovered the three chained men identified as Umair Khan, a resident of Rawalpindi, Hamza, a resident of Charsadda and Mir Qadar, a resident of Landi Kotal.

The kidnappers managed to escape before the raid. The recovered men were later shifted to their respective localit

Militants also blew up a government girls primary school in semi-autonomous tribal area of Kohat despite announcement of ceasefire during Ramazan in the small hours of Saturday, reports our Correspondent Abdul Sami Paracha from Kohat.

Official sources confirmed that militants had planted improvised explosives at the girls primary school, Zarghun Khel in frontier region of Kohat and blew it up before sehri.

Local tribesmen said that the blast was so huge that the whole building of the school was destroyed causing panic among the residents.

The security forces which control the Darra Adam Khel, FR region of Kohat, cordoned off the whole area and launched search operation.

Three Killed Three persons were killed and two others injured in a clash between two rival groups over a petty issue at Mandrakhel village in Mathra area on Saturday, police said. An official said that Amjad, Salahuddin and Haji Akbar were killed while Mohammad Akbar and Khurshid sustained serious bullet injuries. He said that the two rival groups had clashed some time back.