Saboor mangal
KHOST CITY: Suspected militants last night blew up two schools with powerful explosives in Nadir Shahkot district of southeastern Khost province, education officials said Thursday.Provincial education director Mosa Majroh told Pajhwok Afghan News on Thursday that some unidentified miscreants last night entered the schools and detonated powerful explosives inside the schools' buildings, destroying the buildings badly.
More than 600 students of both the gender have been studying in these schools, Majroh said.
He added the schools were built at a cost of $160000 during the last fiscal year.
Nearly a week back, a school in the same province was destroyed by unknown people.
Meanwhile, US-led coalition forces in a statement said Wednesday they captured nearly 16 Taliban suspects in Tannai district of the province.
Separately, in Alisher district, border police came under attack by unidentified gunmen, however police suffered no casualty in the attack, a border police commander Limar Gul Mangal said.
Taliban have issued no statement thus far about the attacks.