CHARSADDA: A female schoolteacher was killed and a student of class IV injured in a grenade attack on Askari Public School in Shabqadar on Wednesday, police said.

Unidentified men on a motorcycle hurled a hand-grenade at the school located in front of the FC fort in Shabqadar. Ms Honey, daughter of Javed, a resident of Pahlawan Qila, and Baby Laila, daughter of Daud, a resident of Gharibabad, were injured in the attack. The schoolteacher died while she and Laila were being taken to the THQ hospital.

Police cordoned off the area and started a search operation. The school was also attacked in 2013.

The Shabqadar police registered an FIR against unknown attackers on the complaint of Brig (retd) Behramand, the managing director of the school, and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, October 2nd, 2014