Wed Aug 31, 2011
People stand at the site of a blown-up school building in Pakistan. (File photo)
Unknown assailants have blown up a school in northwestern Pakistan in a region close to Afghanistan where government troops are fighting militants, Press TV reports.
Militants destroyed a government-run boys' primary school building in the Mohmand tribal region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the early hours of Wednesday by detonating explosives.
There were no reports of casualties since the school was empty at the time of the blast, local officials said.
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants are the main suspects in the incident.
TTP militants have banned female education in the northwestern Pakistan, depriving thousands of girls of their right to education. The number of girls enrolled in school has dropped dramatically in the region because of the violence.
Over the past several years, TTP militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, especially in the areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province, as part of their activities.
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan warns parents against sending their daughters to school, describing education as 'unnecessary' or 'harmful' for girls.
Thousands of people have died in incidents of violence across the country since 2007.
MP/JR
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