MANSEHRA: The district education department (female) has appointed 51 guards to the girls` schools in Mansehra.

These educational institutions long without security staff will get one guard each.

Superintendent at the education department for women Mohammad Bashir told reporters on Thursday that the district education officer (female) had issued letters of appointment to 51 guards.

He said the guards would assume the duty at the designated girls schools shortly.

The superintendent said the guards` appointments were made following a meeting of education department officials with the deputy commissioner and the district police officer about the security of educational institutions earlier in the week.

He said the department wanted foolproof security at the girls` schools and therefore, guards had been appointed to them.

Also in the day, Oghi assistant commissioner Altaf Hussain visited several boys and girls schools in the tehsil and expressed dissatisfaction with security arrangements there.

Accompanied by deputy superintendent of police Zulfiqar Khan Jadoon and deputy district education officer Mohammad Ajmal, the assistant commissioner told reporters here that headmasters of schools without appropriate security checks had been asked to ensure protection of theirrespective campuses without delay.

`We`ve told schools to install closed circuit TV cameras inside and outside the premises and ensure that their boundary walls are eight feet high and topped with barbed wires, he said.

Mr. Hussain said he would check the schools again after they followed the given security guidelines.

`We want all schools to be functional by the end of winter vacation. The schools failing to have appropriate security measures will not be allowed reopen for the protection of the children, he said.

TWO WOMEN KILLED: Two people including a woman were 1(illed on Thursday here in separate incidents.

Abdul Qayyum told the police that Mohammad Ali and Mohammad Waheed dragged his son, Mohammad Shabbir, out of a pickup van in Khaki Shah Baba area of Oghi, fired gunshots at him and axed him to death.

He said the killers suspected his son of filming one of their female family members on camera.

The police registered an FIR and began investigation.

However, no arrest was made by night.

In another incident, unidentified gunmen killed the daughter of Abdullah Jan in Balla Shergar area of Oghi and fled.

The body was taken to the Civil Hospital Oghi for autopsy.

The police registered an FIR and began investigation to trace the culprits.