PESHAWAR (AFP) Taliban insurgents on Wednesday dynamited two schools in Khyber district, officials said, as a wave of attacks by militants avenging military action gripped the nation. The school attacks took place in Bara town, about 20 kilometres south of Peshawar. Most of the buildings were reduced to rubble but no one was injured in the early morning blasts. Both main school buildings were completely destroyed, said Shafeerullah Wazir, the top administrative official of Khyber district, adding that only two classrooms remained standing in the two adjacent schools. Extremists opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years. Wazir said that militants had buried large quantities of dynamite around the outer walls of the government-run high school and primary school. Both Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam people are involved in this act, he said. Troops launched an offensive in Khyber district - which straddles Peshawar and Afghanistan - in September to try and flush out both the Taliban and homegrown militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.