Taliban shell 3 schools in NWFP

PESHAWAR (AFP) The Taliban blew up Friday three schools in NWFP where troops are fighting against militants, officials said.
Buildings in two boys schools about 1.5 kilometres apart were blown up in the Khyber tribal district. Militants blew up a government boys high school and a middle school with explosives around 3:00 am, tribal administration official Rehan Gul Khattak told AFP.
There were no casualties because the properties were empty at the time, he said, blaming the Taliban and militants from the Lashkar-e-Islam led by local warlord Mangal Bagh for the attacks.
Another government boys high school was bombed in the Peshawar district of Sufaid Dheri, damaging its boundary wall and two rooms, senior police official Mohammad Karim told AFP. Militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest in recent years.