PARACHINAR/ BATKHELA, April 15: Two security personnel and a militant were killed in exchange of fire during an attack on a security post in Khpayanga area of lower Kurram tribal region on Friday.

Sources said that a group of armed militants attacked an FC checkpost with heavy weapons. As a result, two personnel Wasim Khan and Hakeem Khan were killed and another one was injured. A militant was also killed when FC men retaliated.

The bodies of security men were shifted to FC headquarter from where they will be dispatched to their native towns.

Meanwhile, a government-run primary school was partially damaged when an explosive device planted by unknown miscreants went off in a remote village of Malakand protected area early on Friday morning.Sources said that unidentified militants had planted the device along the outer wall of the school building in Sholwai, some 25km from district headquarter Batkhela, which exploded with a big bang. As a result, the boundary wall of the school was partially damaged.

The Malakand Levies have lodged a case and started investigation.