{"id":7746,"date":"2026-02-24T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/24\/bomb-destroys-government-school-south-waziristan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:45:20","slug":"bomb-destroys-government-school-south-waziristan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/24\/bomb-destroys-government-school-south-waziristan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Blast Destroys Government School in South Waziristan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have reported that unidentified armed men destroyed a government secondary school in South Waziristan using explosives, resulting in the complete demolition of the educational institution&#8217;s building.<\/p>\n<p>According to local police, the incident occurred in the Barmal area, specifically in a place known as &#8216;Sharif Khan Koot.&#8217; The attackers first set fire to the boys&#8217; school building before detonating explosives to target the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The police added that the blast was so powerful that the school building was completely razed to the ground. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Both South and North Waziristan have witnessed repeated attacks on educational facilities in recent years. Targeting schools, especially girls&#8217; schools, remains a significant security challenge in these areas, raising concerns about the ongoing threats to education and children&#8217;s access to learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified gunmen bomb a government school in South Waziristan, destroying the building and raising concerns over attacks on education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}