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India-Pakistan
Schools, bridges destroyed in Khyber
2011-07-23
[Dawn] Militants blew up two schools and as many bridges in Bara while an oil tanker was targeted with an bomb in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency.

Official sources said that a government middle school in Akkakhel and a primary school for girls in Shalobar were completely destroyed when huge quantity of explosives, planted by snuffies in the buildings, went kaboom! at midnight on Wednesday.

Militants also destroyed two bridges in Shalobar, causing suspension of traffic between the area and other parts of Bara. With the destruction of the two schools, the number of destroyed educational institutions, according to official figures, has risen to 56 in Khyber Agency since the start of military operation in September 2009.

In Landi Kotal, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
oil tanker was partially damaged when a magnet bomb attached to its rear portion went kaboom! on Thursday morning. Officials said that they took the driver and cleaner of the vehicle into custody after the incident because two cabins of the tanker were empty at the time of kaboom.

Officials said that they suspected the driver of stealing fuel. The kaboom was carried out to hide the theft of thousands litres of fuel, they alleged.
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