PES
HAWAR: A nine-year-old girl was killed, three other children were wounded on Monday when a bomb exploded near their school gate in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
The bombing took place outside a village school in the tense North Waziristan region where the Pakistani military has be
en battling Taliban militants since June 2014.
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#8220;A nine-year-old girl was killed and three other children between eight to 10 years old were wounded when explosives planted close to their school gate exploded when they opened it,”
a local government official told AFP.
A local security official also confirmed the blast.
The tribal areas are off-limits to journalists and it is impossible to independently verify incidents.
The army launched an operation in June 2014 in North Waziristan to wipe out militant bases in t
he region and bring an end to a bloody insurgency that has cost thousands of lives since 2004.