GHALANAI, Dec 22: The Government High School, Pandyali, was blown up by suspected militants on Monday.

The suspected militants had planted an improvised explosive device (IED) in the school, which went off with a bang destroying the school building. The furniture and record of the school was also damaged.

It may be mentioned that militants occupied the tehsil building and a school in the Pandyali tehsil recently.

Gunship helicopters targeted suspected militants’ hideouts in upper villages of Panyali. However, no casualty was reported in the shelling.

Meanwhile, a jirga of Isakhel and Burhankhel tribes held in Yakaghund, Lower Mohmand, on Monday handed over 22 suspected people to the political administration.

The political administration has given a list of 61 wanted people to the two tribes.

ACCIDENT: Five people, including two women, were killed and 12 others wounded when a passenger coach plunged into a deep ravine on the Peshawar-Bajaur road near the hilly area of Dhand in the Mohmand Agency on Monday.

The vehicle was carrying a family from the Khwazy area to a safer place in the downward region. The incident occurred at a sharp turn.

The injured, four of them critical, were taken to Shabqadar and Peshawar hospitals.