[DAWN] Suspected holy warriors blew up a government girls' primary school in the border area in Nawagai tehsil early on Monday, officials and local people said.They said that the incident took place in Kamangra locality, 33 kilometers northwest of Khar.
They added that a group of unidentified miscreants entered the newly reconstructed building of the school and planted a number of bombs in it.
The local people said the explosives went off with a bang, razing the building to ground, but fortunately no one was hurt as the building was empty when the blast struck.
The outlawed Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistain accepted the responsibility for the bombing.
TTP front man Shahidullah Shahid told mediapersons on phone from an unspecified location that attacks on government installations, pro-government rustics and security forces would continue. "We carried out the bombing and we will continue attacks on educational institutions all over the tribal areas," he added.
Local people and volunteers of village defence committee reached the spot soon after the kaboom and cordoned off the area, but miscreants managed to escape the scene.
A local administration official said that the school building was completely destroyed in the kaboom. He disclosed that the same school was also destroyed by holy warriors in 2010 and was recently reconstructed.
The official said the administration launched an investigation to know why the watchman was absent when the holy warriors entered the building.