School building blown up in Waziristan

Published February 22, 2006

WANA, Feb 21: Saboteurs blew up a primary school building in Angoor Adda near Afghan border in the South Waziristan Agency, sources said. They said that a bomb went off on Monday night damaging the building and its boundary wall. No casualty was reported.

In another incident, masked men shot dead two brothers — Rafil Khan and Badshah Khan — in Angoor Adda, about 33 kilometres west of here on Monday evening. Residents said that they had no enmity in the area.

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