Militants bomb college, two schools in Bajaur

Published: June 20, 2009

KHAR (AFP) - Militants blew up two boys’ schools and a college in Bajaur tribal area, an official said Friday.
“Several locally-made bombs planted inside the school buildings went off late in the night,” local govt official Adalat Khan told AFP, adding that both schools were ‘completely demolished’. “They also bombed a boys’ degree college in Mamond town.”
Gul Rehman, a Bajaur education officer, said 44 schools had been bombed or set on fire in the past year in the district.
Elsewhere in Bajaur on Friday, a roadside bomb exploded and wounded a tribal policeman while he was on patrol, an official said. Bajaur lies just to the west of Dir and Swat districts, where the military is locked in a nearly two-month-long offensive against Taliban insurgents.

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