Attack on passenger bus in Hangu kills one

PESHAWAR: One person was killed and another injured on Saturday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a passenger coach in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Hangu district. Police sources said unidentified assailants opened fire on the coach near Doaba area of Hangu leading to the casualties. Police has registered a case and is investigating the motive and other circumstances surrounding the attack. Meanwhile, in the Bajaur tribal region, suspected militants blew up an under construction Frontier Corps (FC) picket in the agency’s Gaki Pass area. Official sources said the checkpost was under construction and no loss of life took place in the attack. Hangu, racked by sectarian violence, is situated in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which is on the frontline of a seven-year-long Taliban insurgency and abuts the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). School blown up in Mohmand Suspected militants blew up a school in the Mohmand tribal region early on Saturday. Official sources said suspected militants had planted explosives in the government girls primary school situated in the Dando Bridge area of Mohmand which went off. No loss of life was reported but the school has been partially destroyed. Mohmand is one of Pakistan’s seven tribal agencies near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown insurgents and are said to be strongholds of Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives.