CHARSADDA/GHALANAI/WANA, Jan 27: Two schools were blown up in Charsadda district and South Waziristan Agency while a security man and eight militants were killed in Mohmand tribal region on Thursday.

Officials said that suspected militants planted explosive device at a government primary school in Zahir Shah Koroona, a disputed area of Chrasadda district.

The school building, record and furniture were destroyed completely when the explosive device was detonated in the small hours of Thursday, they added.

Police and security forces conducted search operation in the area after the incident and arrested 28 suspected persons and seized weapons.

In Safi tehsil of Mohmand tribal region, unidentified armed persons shot dead a Levies man and managed to escape. The deceased was identified as Shamsher Jan.

Two security personnel were injured in a roadside landmine explosion in Qayumabad area of tehsil Safi. The injured personnel were shifted to Peshawar for treatment.

Meanwhile, an ISPR press release issued on Thursday said that eight militants were killed in exchange of fire with security forces in Mohmand Agency. Twenty other militants were apprehended during search operation in different areas of the region, it added. The release said that four security personnel including an officer, a junior commissioned officer and two soldiers were injured in a blast in Lakkaro tehsil of Mohmand.

In South Waziristan Agency, militants blew up Musa Neeka Public School on late Wednesday night.

Political Agent Mohammad Shoaib said that five consecutive explosions reduced the higher secondary education block of the school to ashes. The office of the principal was also razed to ground, he said

The school is located hardly 10 yards from the Wana airport where the authorities ban entry of people after 7pm for security reasons. Four students were asleep in the hostel of the school at the time of the explosions, however, they remained unhurt.