SWABI/KARAK: Unidentified militants blew up a government primary school in Razzar tehsil of Swabi district on Tuesday.

It was third incident of its kind in the area during the last five days. “One of the two bombs planted by suspected militants at the school went off while the other was defused by Bomb Disposal Squad,” police said.

Officials of Kalu Khan police station said that militants had planted two bombs at the school in Muradabad, Karnal Sher Khan Kallay. They said that the school building was destroyed when one of the bombs went off at midnight.

Police from the nearby post reached the site and seized the unexploded bomb, which was defused later, they said.

The boys and girls, getting education at the said school, were told to remain at home till further order. An FIR was registered in Kalu Khan police station against unidentified persons.

In the same area, three persons were killed on Feb 10 when hand grenades were hurled at them as they were returning from the public meeting of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf. In Karak, police foiled a bid of terrorism on Tuesday by defusing a missile, planted at a hilltop near the Gurguri oil and gas plant.

A shepherd informed police about the presence of the four-foot long missile, planted ostensibly by unidentified terrorists on Monday night to target the oil and gas plant.

A heavy contingent of police along with Bomb Disposal Squad was sent to the area to defuse the missile. Police said that range of the missile was 30 to 35 kilometres.

DPO Sajjad Khan told journalists at his office that apparently the terrorists had come from North Waziristan side as the tribal region was only at a distance of eight kilometres from the border of the district.

The Gurguri oil and gas plant was extremely vulnerable, the DPO said. He added that checkpoints of Frontier Constabulary and Levies should be set up on the nearby hilltops to make the oil and gas plant secure.

Mr Khan said that it was second attempt of its kind in the current month. The first attempt was made by terrorists on Feb 11 when they targeted the plant with rockets.

“After the first attack on the plant, I provided three new vehicles, heavy weapons and a platoon of Elite Force to Banda Daud Shah police to beef up security of the oil and gas installations,” he added.