kaboom!in Salarzai tehsil of
Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central on Friday.After the blast, security personnel showed up and cordoned off the area.
There followed a search operation during which security personnel nabbed a suspected myrmidon and seized an bomb near the Darra bazaar area.
An official of the local administration said the dead volunteers were Nawaz Khan, 24, and Hazart Khan, 22, while the maimed were Tor Khan, Farman and an unidentified woman, who were taken to the Agency Headquarters Hospital, Khar, where their condition was declared to be stable.
The official said it was yet not clear if the attackers targeted volunteers. He confirmed the arrest of a suspected myrmidon during search operation.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
a government primary school was blown up in Ziarat Kaka Sahib area of Nowshera district early on Friday.
A teacher of the school said the 4:30am kaboom completely destroyed the two-room building and its boundary wall. The bomb disposal squad said explosives weighing around 12kg were used in the attack.
Police said they began a search operation in the area with the help of sniffer dogs after the terrorist activity and nabbed 10 suspects.
They said schoolteacher Nasir Khan and watchman Hameed Khan were also taken into custody after sniffer dogs went to their houses and that a Kalashnikov and one gun was recovered from the teacher`s house.
The Nowshera Kalan cop shoppe registered the case of the kaboom and began investigation. Zameer Khan, who lives near the school, said the kaboom was so loud that it shattered windowpanes of his house.