An under-construction girls’ school in the village of Dabkot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s South Waziristan was blown up by unidentified people on Thursday night, sources said.

The two rooms of the under-construction building were damaged, but there were no casualties.

The girls’ academy was being built with the support of a local non-governmental organisation in the Wana’s village. It was inaugurated on March 20.

The head of the NGO stated that the motive behind the attack is unknown.

On May 6, another girls’ school was targeted by a bomb explosion, causing extensive damage to the privately owned school located in the Drazanda area of the North Waziristan district.

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