IED event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Meragai, Buner District area, Pakistan on Mon 2nd September 2024

Unidentified militants torched a Government primary school on September 2 and detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) as a Police team returned from the burnt school in Meragai area of Buner District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Dawn. No casualties were reported in either incident. Israr Khan, the spokesperson for the Buner District Police Officer (DPO), said that both incidents happened in the hamlet of Meragai, located along the border of the Chargharzai area. “A government primary school [for both girls and boys] was burned by unknown miscreants in the late night. Our Police party was returning from the torched school after thoroughly inspecting it and as they passed the area, an IED went off on the rough village road connecting Pishlor Shangla to Gul Bandai, however no human loss or injury [was] reported,” the spokesman added. He said both incidents were terrorist acts carried out by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as its movement was observed several times on the Shangla-Buner border.