CHARSADDA/LANDI KOTAL, Feb 29: Unidentified militants blew up the sub-campus of Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU) at Palosa area in Charsadda on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses said that laboratory and classrooms of AWKU sub-campus were damaged badly when explosives, planted at the building went off. The blast was heard in far off areas. According to officials of Bomb Disposal Squad, at least three kilograms of explosives, put in a ghee canister, were used in the blast. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

In a similar incident, militants blew up a government primary school in Dalazak area of Shabqadar on Tuesday night. The residents of the area said that the school building was destroyed in the explosion.

In Khyber Agency, two women were killed and 11 other persons received injuries in two separate incidents on Wednesday.

Officials in Bara said that an improvised explosive device hit a pick-up vehicle, taking the family of a tribesman identified as Mohammad Wisal, near Qambarabad. The wife and aunt of Mr Wisal were killed on the spot while five other people including two children were critically injured in the blast. The vehicle was also damaged completely.

The family was returning to Malikdinkhel area after attending the funeral of a local elder Qazi Mohammad Asghar.

In another incident, eight persons including women and children were injured when a mortar shell, fired by a rival group, fell on the house of local militant commander Salamat in Sturikhel area.

In a similar incident, the house and a pick-up truck of militant commander Shah Mehmud were badly damaged. Sources in the area said that militants of Lashkar-i-Islam and rival Tawheedul Islam were targeting each other’s positions with mortars and rockets when the house and vehicle were hit.

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