MINGORA: A 12-year-old boy was accidentally shot dead by his teacher while cleaning pistol in the school at Sangota area of Manglawar here on Thursday.

According to Sangota police, Majid Ahmad, a teacher in a private school, accidentally shot his student dead. “A pistol went off from a teacher’s hands when he was cleaning it. The bullet hit a fifth grade student leaving him dead on the spot,” district police officer, Swat, Salim Marwat told Dawn.

The school administration also said that the pistol went off accidentally hitting the student when he was passing by the staff room.

“The teacher, Majid, himself rushed the student to the hospital and later handed over himself to the police,” said the hospital sources. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has already asked the teachers to keep weapons in school after the tragic incident of the Army Public School, Peshawar, on Dec 16 last year.

However, civil society activists and teachers association, largely, condemned the government’s decision to bind the schools’ administration and teachers for keeping weapons inside the schools. The KP government has also conducted training on the use of weapons for teachers and watchmen in schools. — Correspondent

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2015

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