BANNU, Dec 15: Two rooms were destroyed when suspected terrorists blew up a girls’ school in Mawia Kila area on Tuesday night, sources said. The owner of the school, Khalid Khan, said explosives had been planted at two places in the school-building, adding that a classroom and the principal’s office had been destroyed and other parts of the building damaged in the blast.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The same school built on the D.I. Khan Road during the MMA government was also targeted on Dec 14 last year.

Investigations into the attack were under way, police said.

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