By SUNIL Sonkar
Peshawar, Feb. 03 — Eight killed, including four foreign aid workers and children in a bomb blast at a school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. It is just a rebuilt after a previous Islamist attack.
In the blast journalists were also wounded as Pakistani paramilitary forces escorted a foreign groups and local visitors in the inauguration ceremony of a newly built school.
Mumtaz Zarin, district police, told to the media, “Eight people were killed in this blast — four foreigners, one security guard and three schoolgirls.”
He also added, “The school building was also badly damaged and three vehicles destroyed.”
Pak Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the blast strongly and ordered for an investigation into it. The blast took place in Koto village, which is about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Lower Dir’s main town of Taimargara.
Spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps said, “The four foreigners were working for an NGO (non-governmental organisation). They are from the international community.”
According to doctor Sardar Ali of Taimargara Hospital, the medics had received three bodies of schoolgirls and a man.
