Daily Times

Two separate improvised explosive device (IED) attacks hit Chitral and Upper Dir early Sunday morning, resulting in the martyrdom of at least one security personnel, a private TV channel reported.

The first incident came at 4:45am when a primary school for boys was razed to the ground in Arandu Gol area of Chitral. The school is located within a kilometre of the Pak-Afghan border.The militants planted two IEDs – one in the three-room school’s compound and another on the road leading to the school, a senior official said. Two rooms of the school were completely destroyed in the explosion. However, there were no reports of any loss of life in the incident.

This is the first time militants have targeted a school in Chitral. In the second incident, a security personnel was martyred and another injured when an IED went off in Upper Dir’s Jungle Khel area at 8:30am.

Meanwhile, security forces averted an attack in North Waziristan’s DattaKhel area after spotting and disarming a roadside IED planted by the militants.

Published in Daily Times, October 1, 2018.