Peshawar: Militants targeted a government girls’ primary school with an improvised explosive device in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district in northwest Pakistan early Sunday, police said.
The explosion damaged parts of the building but caused no injuries or loss of life. Police quickly reached the site, and cordoned off the area, while security was tightened in nearby localities.
In a separate incident in Paharkhel Pakka, a village in the same district, armed men allegedly abducted a young man. He was reportedly tortured before being dumped in a semi-conscious state. Locals shifted him to the District Headquarters Hospital for treatment. Residents have expressed deep concern over the rising violence and demanded stronger measures to protect schools and communities. Offshoot groups of the banned TTP, active in Lakki Marwat, are known for opposing girls’ education and often attack schools.
According to NGOs, more than 450 schools in the province have been destroyed in such attacks between 2015 and 2025.agencies