remained in the grip of violence, as one Frontier Constabulary soldier was killed and four others were maimed in a pre-dawn attack by bully boyz on Friday, while a girls' school was blown up in Dera Ismail Khan... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
. Also, four suspected bully boyz were killed and three others maimed in different parts of the agency.
Officials in Bara said that activists of Lashkar-e-Islam bully boy group attacked a security checkpost in Malakdinkhel area, leaving one FC soldier dead and four others maimed. They said that two suspected bully boyz were killed during the security forces' operation in the area soon after the attack.
The injured soldiers were taken to a military hospital in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.
Sources in Tirah valley said that an activist of a bully boy organization was killed and three others were maimed when volunteers of Lashkar-e-Islam and its rival group clashed in Akkakhel area.
The officials said that a bridge in Shalobar area was partially damaged when a time device planted to it went
kaboom!on Friday morning. Forces have recently established a number of checkposts in Shalobar area of Bara after nearly 3,000 families vacated their houses and shifted to Jalozai camp in Nowshera.
Of late, the area has witnessed a surge in bully boy attacks on the security forces and is under curfew since November last year.
In Bazaar Zakhakhel area of Landi Kotal, an kaboom outside the house of a local elder killed his son and injured two of his other family members. No one has grabbed credit for the blast.
The Zakhakhel tribe revolted against Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
-led Lashkar-e-Islam in April last year and after forcing the LI activists to leave their area, they now have found their own gang, Tawheedul Islam. In Dera Ismail Khan, unidentified hard boyz blew up a government girls' school in Kotla Saidan late on Friday night.
Quoting an FIR lodged on the complaint of school watchman Taqi Shah, police said that five gunnies entered the school, tied Mr Shah with ropes and blew up the building after planting explosives in the classrooms. The Dera Township cop shoppe registered the case and has started investigations. According to police, about 40kg of high kaboom was used in the attack.