PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Militants set off a bomb, damaging a girls’ school in a village near here on Saturday night.

Teachers and students of the Govt Girls Middle School in Ahmed Shah village had received several warning letters asking them to start wearing veil.

This is the second bomb blast in the limits of the Matni police station over the past two weeks. A blast had damaged the Govt Primary Girls’ School in Sher Bahadur village on Nov 26.

Police have registered a case on the complaint of a tribal elder.

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