[Dawn] Militants blew up a government-run girls' primary school on the outskirts of northwest garrison town Bannu late Saturday night.
"The school is almost completely destroyed," said Mohammad Hussain Khan, a local police official in the area. "They planted explosives around the walls and then dynamited the building."
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Security forces cordoned off the area after the explosion to start investigation.
Militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years as they wage a fierce insurgency to enforce sharia law. |