LANDI KOTAL: Militants blew up a primary school in Jamrud late on Thursday evening, officials said.

Armed men planted the explosives inside the two-room building of Said Akbar Kali Girls School in Bakarabad locality of Ghundi area and blew it up at around 9pm, they added.

No one was present inside the school at the time of the explosion.

Not long ago militants blew up three schools in the same area.

However, the local administration is still clueless about the whereabouts of the militants who claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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