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DI KHAN: Police officials reported that unknown assailants burned solved exam papers stored at a school in North Waziristan during the early hours of Tuesday.
Approximately 10 to 15 unidentified individuals breached the school’s perimeter by scaling its wall, subsequently seizing the watchmen and employing incendiary substances to set the exam papers ablaze.
These papers, previously collected from 23 Bannu Education Board examination centers, fell victim to the arson attack, with the fire attributed to the use of combustible materials.
Following the crime, the perpetrators fled the scene. Nevertheless, authorities disclosed that matriculation question papers, located nearby, were promptly relocated to safety post-incident. This event echoes a similar occurrence in December, wherein unidentified culprits set fire to school furniture of considerable value in a girls’ school within Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district.
According to police reports, armed individuals infiltrated Government Higher Secondary School Mambati in Miryan Tehsil of Bannu. In addition to igniting furniture and other equipment, they pilfered solar panels and a pressure pump before executing a successful getaway. A local police station official described the severity of the attack, highlighting the devastation wrought upon the school’s science room, containing furniture and laboratory equipment worth millions of rupees, reduced to ashes.