(RTTNews) - Two suspected pro-Taliban militants were killed while attempting to detonate explosives in an effort to blow up a school in Pakistan's northwestern valley of Swat, according to media reports quoting the police.
The police defused two more bombs planted in other parts of the school in the Kabal area, after the explosion.
As part of intensifying a campaign by militant groups to enforce strict Islamic law in their strongholds in Pakistan, scores of schools have been destroyed in the northwestern valley of Swat in recent months.
Militants set on fire the girls' high schools in Matta, Mingora, and Kanju after Monday night.
Swat has been put under curfew since last week in the wake of increasing threat from pro-Taliban militants to security checkpoints and government buildings.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani army claimed to have killed nine militants, including a close associate of Swat militant leader Maulana Fazlullah, in a search operation Wednesday. A Taleban spokesman in Swat confirmed the death of Ali Bakht Khan.
The police defused two more bombs planted in other parts of the school in the Kabal area, after the explosion.
As part of intensifying a campaign by militant groups to enforce strict Islamic law in their strongholds in Pakistan, scores of schools have been destroyed in the northwestern valley of Swat in recent months.
Militants set on fire the girls' high schools in Matta, Mingora, and Kanju after Monday night.
Swat has been put under curfew since last week in the wake of increasing threat from pro-Taliban militants to security checkpoints and government buildings.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani army claimed to have killed nine militants, including a close associate of Swat militant leader Maulana Fazlullah, in a search operation Wednesday. A Taleban spokesman in Swat confirmed the death of Ali Bakht Khan.
Source: RTT News
Muslims Against Sharia congratulate Taliban with successful "work accident" and wish for many more "work accidents" in the immediate future.
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