LANDI KOTAL, April 20: Unidentified miscreants blew up a government girls’ school in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on the night between Thursday and Friday.

Local officials said that a group of armed men entered the Said Ahmad Jan Kali girls school building at midnight and planted explosives alongside its boundary wall.

The explosives went off with a big bang causing damage to some classrooms and a portion of the boundary wall. Windowpanes of a number of classrooms and offices were also smashed.

Officials said that they took into custody seven local residents, the school watchman among them, and started investigations. They said that the school was closed after the explosion and would be reopened after devising security arrangements for the students.

A local militant group Abdullah Ezzam Brigade took responsibility for the incident.

Officials of the education department said that with the recent incident, the number of destroyed government schools in Khyber Agency had reached 69. —Correspondent