BANNU/PESHAWAR, Oct 26: Militants blew up a government-run girls` school in Bannu district and targeted a private school in Peshawar on Saturday.

Also in the day, Bannu police foiled a bid to bomb a local primary school.

However, no damage to public life was reported in such incidents.

Bannu police said the Government Girls Primary School in the jurisdiction of Haweed police station was targeted by explosion of an improvised explosive device.

They said two rooms and veranda of the school were destroyed in the blast, while two rooms and boundary wall of the school were partially damaged.

No terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.

BOMBING BID FOILED: Bannu police said they had thwarted the planned bombing of a primary school in Katchkot Asad Khan area in the day.

They said the people informed them about presence of an explosive device near the school in the jurisdiction of Bissakhel police station.

Police said they along with bomb disposal squad rushed to the school and defused it.

In another incident, miscreants attacked the Haweed police station with heavy weapons on Saturday.

However, police repulsed the attack forcing miscreants to flee.

A gipsy man died in the crossfire.

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL`S CAR TARGE TED: Miscreants targeted a private college by exploding an explosive device in Hayatabad Township on Saturday afternoon.

The blast partially damaged the vehicle of the Qurtaba School and College`s principal.

An official at the Hayatabad police station said principal Said Alam of declined to register the case saying he had no enmity with anyone nor had he received threats from any quarter.

He said the car was parked outside the college in Phase 3, Hayatabad when a blast took place nearby damaging it.

Nobody was around and therefore, no casualty took place.

The official said someone had hurled a hand grenade, which caused the blast.

He said police tried to convince the principal to lodge a complaint but he was adamant.

SCHOOL GUTTED: A government-run primary school for girls in Shalpeen Daro Maira area of Swat district was gutted in a fire in the small hours of Saturday.

The fire destroyed the record and furniture.

Local residents said gunshots were fired in the area after the school caught fire.

They said around 110 girls were enrolled in the school and that there was no school for girls in the area and on the outskirts.

School watchman Rahim Kabir first told police that unidentified men set fire to the building and fired shots in the air before fleeing.

He, however, changed his statement afterwards and said the fire was caused by short-circuit.

Swat DPO Sher Akbar Khan said the watchman had revealed that the fire was caused by short-circuit due to his negligence.

He said the watchman and his relative and policeman Izhar dramatised the incident by falsely claiming that unidentified men set the building on fire and fired gunshots in the air before fleeing.

The DPO said police had arrested cop Izhar and seized his pistol used for the firing.

EXPLOSIVES SEIZED: Security forces arrested a terrorist after seizing 13,300kg explosives in Darra Adamkhel area of Frontier Region, Kohat on Saturday.

A local official said Saeed Afridi was arrested during a raid on a house in Germany Kalay area.

He said the terrorist had been shifted to an unidentified place for interrogation.