KALAYA/LANDI KOTAL, Nov 21: Three security personnel were injured when militants attacked a military convoy with a remote controlled bomb in Ghiljo area of Orakzai Agency on Sunday.

Sources said the convoy was going from Ghiljo in upper Orakzai Agency to Thall when it was hit by a remote controlled device in the Yakh Kandaw area.

As a result, a vehicle was destroyed and three personnel were injured.

The injured men, identified as Sepoys Ashfaq and Akram and Hawaldar Maqbool, were taken to Ghiljo from where they were shifted to CMH Thall in a helicopter.

It was the fourth such attack on military convoys in the area in the recent past, according to the sources.

Meanwhile, unidentified saboteurs blew up another girls' school in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday night.

Officials said that the incident took place in Malagori village. They said that a portion of the school building had been damaged in the blast.

Local residents said that a huge blast occurred at around midnight which caused panic in the area.

Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the blast. So far at least 27 schools have been destroyed in Bara and Landi Kotal tehsils of Khyber Agency since the start of military operation in September last year.

In Loe Shalman area of Landi Kotal, unidentified gunmen opened fire and injured a khasadar. Local political administration have registered a case against unknown gunmen and started investigation.

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